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xml is better suited to send structured data (tables) between servers,
but I figure the clue about xml is xml-rpc.
With xml-rpc (remote procedure calls) you send a whole function call (with the data you normally pass with parameters) between packages, and can build online peer to peer or remote control networks. The libraries are open-source and have little or no dependencies.
I heard windows7 has xml-rpc integrated in the windows api, so you can build applications on lan/desktop and have em communicate with internet services (without the browser). iPhone and Wordpress hooked up recently, and now you can blog from your iPhone (photo blogging).
xml-rpc might become big business the next few years, especially if as website you want to offer accessibility and connectivity for mobile phones and desktop applications.
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