The Dow’s down 192 points at the moment, and it’s reasonable to expect that businesses will be playing things cheap and cautious for quite some time. Just the same, at least one XML professional thinks companies’ XML-related plans can and should move ahead even now.

Jim Earley, who works for Flatirons Solutions, stresses that embracing XML is not going to require sending a company’s entire IT department back to school and then restarting the business from scratch. Instead, the process might be as simple as doing some reading on different forums for a couple of hours. (more…)