The XML server is emerging as an important integration platform for developing applications that create/send and receive/process XML. This article will look at the design of an XML server and how it simplifies the task of writing XML applications. First, let's distinguish XML servers from something most of us are already familiar with—Web servers. A Web server responds to user requests via HTTP and delivers HTML documents; it can also manage the interactions between a user and a back-end application via CGI or other application programming interfaces.
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