I'm having trouble understanding the purpose and need to use XML
Basically, why use xml?  I mean I know its for structering data, but still not seeing it's real-world benefits?  Like with databases for a website, why not just take the user input directly instead of from and xml file first?  I'm just not seeing the point.
I'm having trouble understanding the purpose and need to use XML
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Basically, why use xml?  I mean I know its for structering data, but still not seeing it's real-world benefits?  Like with databases for a website, why not just take the user input directly instead of from and xml file first?  I'm just not seeing the point.