use of XML
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you know those little boxes on the wall that control the HVAC and environment/climate systems in buildings...when i worked at my previous employer we wrote firmware and software that controled those boxes and systems. we used xml to hold not only the ui on those boxes, but to also stream system config data back and forth from the hvac units to the control boxes and to computer terminal software that tracked building statistics (like temp, humidity, etc).
it was a two year long development project bringing that inhouse, but xml made it a lot easier and more uptodate than the older sytems in place.
now, all that data is easily transferrable to any device...wireless devices, computer software, other hvac controllers...etc.
so, there is a real world, pratical application of xml and it's technologies that doesn't envolve just web crap. there is more out there than the web, and xml is able to work with just about anything.
linux uses xml for some config files now. some window managers (like fluxbox) use to describe the look and feel of the os theme.
xml is beautiful. :)