The Open Text Web provides an arena for information and intelligence sharing.
Text documents contain information that can be easily retrieved for use in various applications.
XML , and to a lesser degree HTML , documents contain that same information, but also contain information about the nature of that information, given their markup nature. XML documents provide Metadata about each entry, since markup is metadata. An information processor can derive, from an XML document, the content type of each entry and its relationship to other entries. Information processors, using this approach, can glean information and intelligence from XML documents. Comma-Delimited Lists , for example, are a crude means of describing data, and provide information processors with very little information about the nature of each entry.