XML?Defining Documents on the 'Net

"While HTML and Adobe's PDF specification provide portability of documents, they currently do not describe the data that makes up the document," Klatt reports. "XML allows us to define a markup language that describes the underlying data elements of a document."

Empowering Variable Data
Bitstream's Trevithick trumpets XML, not just for its applications in print-on-demand, but for its impending role in empowering the more valued sister idea of on-demand variable data printing.