Libraries exist for most programming languages. Web browsers are adding XML awareness. Yet mainly these XML facilities exist as an add-on to existing products. The true XML revolution will happen when XML handling facilities are an integral part of language and platform distributions. When XML is that ubiquitous, the real excitement can start.
Most developers are in the business of enabling productivity.
Built-in XML capabilities enable a major increase in interoperability and communication between previously isolated applications. XML heralds the dawn of low-cost electronic commerce between businesses, enabling many smaller enterprises to participate where costs were previously prohibitive. XML will also power the revolution of increasing integration between web, desktop, and consumer electronic devices. As the variety of devices used to interact increases, so will end the purely proprietary data formats. With it can start the clean-up of the Web, and one hopes, the ultimate resolution of browser incompatibilities.