The applications that drives the acceptance of XML are those that cannot be accomplished within the limitations of HTML.

These applications can be divided into three broad categories:

• Applications that require the web client to mediate between two or more heterogeneous databases
• Applications that attempt to distribute a significant proportion of the processing load from the web server to the web client
• Applications that require the web client to present different views of the same data to different users

Smartbuzz focuses on following XML applications areas:

• Collaborative design efforts
• Intranet applications