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Chapter 1. XML overview 7
1.3.3 XML in new innovations
There have such a large number of innovations based on XML, they are too
numerous to list. New ideas are now based in XML. Entrepreneurial companies
now cannot avoid XML and its standards.
Voice XML
In October, 2001, the World Wide Consortium (w3C) announced the first release
of a working draft for the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML).
VoiceXML has these purposes among others:
It will hide designers and developers from low-level platform specific details.
It will promote portability across implementation platforms.
It will be a common language for platform providers, development tool
providers and content providers.
It would provide features to support complex dialogs, yet be easy to use for
simple interactions.
It is designed to cater for audio dialogs that would feature digitized audio,
speech recognition, telephony and synthesized speech. Its goal would be to
deliver advantages of Web-based development and context delivery for
interactive voice response applications.
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML based language for describing
two-dimensional graphics. Its main use is in Geographical Information Systems
(GIS) where travel maps, council boundaries, forest fires and natural disasters
can be processed and displayed independently of technical platforms. It will be
able to integrate with non-GIS software, and also allow graphic elements to
non-graphic.
The benefits of this new XML derivative are not difficult to comprehend. It uses
are many. For example, insurance companies can estimate and forecast natural
disaster claims; and scientists can study environmental impacts, and local and
federal governments for city and town planning.
1.4 Technical benefits of XML
Fundamentally, the basics of XML have not changed. What has changed is the
extent XML is being used today, and how it is incorporated into technologies for
the future. XML offers many benefits, some of which are stated below.