Regarding this paper, I think the most important usage of XML
is still the first one in the article, which is data exchangement. Others
are just derivatives of this function. Regarding content management
or supplying-a-standand-interface-for-document-recording, that is not
the main function of XML, (my feeling is using XML as a universal document
recording format is not so good because of the simplicity of XML grammar)
although this is important as well.

Anyway, nice to c u guys here! I will engage in this bbs more often
in the future. All the best!

Yes, true about your description of our country's current state of e-Commerce.
I think the reason is: we have to wait for all industry to develop fully before
we can have some universal idea (and standard). It depends on time and
continuous working from people in every industry. Good luck!

I am currently working in England. My current research is about using
XML in content management system, so a bit like universal document
format. Here in UK the research on XML and its associated techniques
is very hot. From what I have learned, the family of XML techniques,
like XSLT, XSA, XLink, XForm, DOM have been set up for quite a while,
and almost in every field, there are a lot of papers, articles and experts,
working on it.

Some related techniques, like web services, semantic web and so on,
are also on hot development. All these, step over the current web
technology to a higher level, with more complex structure.

I am working in academy, so I don't know much about the industry.
However, there are plenty of articles and papers, on how to implement
this language into industry and commercial use.

The above is what I have learned so far.

另一方面，假如你要从一些结构松散的XML文档建立一个网站。你不但要管理这个网站，还要提供站点内容搜索。你的文档看起来结构比较松散，其中的实体的使用对你来说可能更重要，因为它们是文档结构的重要部分。这种情况下，你也许需要一个原生XML数据库(native XML database)或内容管理系统(content management system)。这使你可以保持文档的物理结构，支持文件级的事务处理，以及使用XML Query语言进行查询。