Expanding the Web: Is XML Sufficient?

The first elements of the web infrastructure includes HTML tagging, simple hypertext linking and hardcoded representa-tion. It had scalability problem when Internet became more popular and the number of applications provided by the web increased steadily. This scaling limitation gave the birth of XML to suffice to the huge demands of the web. This pa-per explores the cost benefit analysis behind the technologies used for XML processing. It also presents various optimiza-tion techniques that can be applied to normal schema-based XML document and other encoded versions of binary XML. In this context it finds the drawbacks of using only text or binary XML in the web. This helps the paper to focus on its main objective for justifying the reason for use of a combined form of XML in all applications for increasing efficiency