It's a document interchange format, and the code that persists it does not have feelings. Use it to write out (externalize) the model structure of your documen

It's a document interchange format, and the code that persists it does not have feelings. Use it to write out (externalize) the model structure of your document to persistent storage. The structure reflected in the XML form of a document could either be hidden below a near-WYSIWYG GUI layer, or it may be more exposed in an XML editor: XML editors let you edit XML in a way that "normal" text editors don't (e.g. show markup and text directly together while still protecting mark-up tags instead of treating them as character-wise editable text).