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       XML is the abbreviation for Extensible Markup Language. It is a specification developed by the W3C
 (World Wide Web Consortium), designed especially for Web documents to enable large scale electronic
 publishing's or large scale data transfer. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the
 definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between organizations.
       This is where we come in. We develop software for the translation of your data into xml sheets
 and now we provide software that can read xml sheets and import the data into any ODBC compliant
 database. (Example databases: Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL 2000, Dbase, Paradox, DB2... and many
  more.)

 Benefits of using XML:

• Simplicity
• Information coded in XML is easy to read and understand, plus it can be processed easily by computers.
• Openness
• XML is a W3C standard, endorsed by software industry market leaders.
• Extensibility
• There is no fixed set of tags. New tags can be created as they are needed.
• Self-description
• In traditional databases, data records require schemas set up by the database administrator. XML documents can be stored without such definitions, because they contain meta data in the form of tags and attributes.
• XML Provides a basis for author identification and versions at the element level. Any XML tag can possess an unlimited number of attributes such as author or version.
• Contains machine-readable context information
• Tags, attributes and element structure provide context information that can be used to interpret the meaning of content, opening up new possibilities for highly efficient search engines, intelligent data mining, agents, etc.
• This is a major advantage over HTML or plain text, where context information is difficult or impossible to evaluate.
• Separates content from presentation
• XML tags describe meaning not presentation. The motto of HTML is: "I know how it looks", whereas the motto of XML is: "I know what it means, and you tell me how it should look." The look and feel of an XML document can be controlled by XSL style sheets, allowing the look of a document (or of a complete Web site) to be changed without touching the content of the document. Multiple views or presentations of the same content are easily rendered.
• Supports multilingual documents and Unicode
• This is important for the internationalization of applications.
• Facilitates the comparison and aggregation of data
• The tree structure of XML documents allows documents to be compared and aggregated efficiently element by element.
• Can embed multiple data types
• XML documents can contain any possible data type - from multimedia data (image, sound, video) to active components (Java applets, ActiveX).
• Can embed existing data
• Mapping existing data structures like file systems or relational databases to XML is simple. XML supports multiple data formats and can cover all existing data structures and .
• Provides a 'one-server view' for distributed data
• XML documents can consist of nested elements that are distributed over multiple remote servers. XML is currently the most sophisticated format for distributed data - the World Wide Web can be seen as one huge XML database.
• Rapid adoption by industry
• Software AG, IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Netscape, Data Channel, SAP and many others have already announced support for XML. Microsoft will use XML as the exchange format for its Office product line, while both Microsoft's and Netscape's Web browsers support XML. SAP has announced support of XML through the SAP Business Connector with R/3. Software AG supports XML in its Bolero and Natural product lines and provides Tamino, a native XML database.