Now you've learned about some of the potential uses for desktop XML. Perhaps some of the scenarios described in this chapter seem familiar, and address goals you have for your own documents: better data sharing, self-describing documents, flexible rendering, and integration with enterprise data stores and the Web.
In the next chapter, we'll go into some more detail about XML. We'll cover the basic concepts that are relevant to its use with Office.
Then we'll complete our introduction with a chapter on all the XML-enabled products in the Office suite, with examples of their XML capabilities.