Subject:Need guidelines Author:Tony Lavinio Date:26 Jul 2005 10:49 AM
It appears you need to understand what XML is and what it is used for.
According to http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp
"XML was designed to describe data and to focus on what data is."
If you go to that link, there is a tutorial there about the purpose and
use of XML.
For the specification of XML, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/