XML inside

XML-compliant applications

To deserve the label "XML inside" an application shall:

Use XML for all exchanges of information:
- clipboard;
- drag'n drop;
- configuration files;
- data files;
- network communications.
Publish schemas for all these exchanges of information, or refer to well-known schemas.
Not loose information that is not undestood .

The last point relates to avoid problems of data loss when passing files between programs. A round-trip beetwen programs A and B shall be feasible, leading to a composite document having a common core of elements understood by both programs, some elements understood by program A only, and some by program B only.

A possible implementation is to keep the Document Object Model in memory.