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XRX (web application architecture)
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Software_development/UUfsAaYY">software development</a> XRX is a web application architecture based on <a href="/facts/XForms/rM2wzJsM">XForms</a>, <a href="/facts/Representational_state_transfer/Q58zfr5h">REST</a> and <a href="/facts/XQuery/47Ep0fSS">XQuery</a>. XRX applications store data on both the <a href="/facts/Web_client/2pfyymLs">web client</a> and on the <a href="/facts/Web_server/A4GS6thA">web server</a> in <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> format and do not require a translation between data formats. XRX is considered a simple and elegant application architecture due to the minimal number of translations needed to transport data between client and server systems. The XRX architecture is also tightly coupled to <a href="/facts/W3C/lGWmhF6M">W3C</a> standards (<a href="/facts/CSS/tA90XBQo">CSS</a>, <a href="/facts/XHTML_2.0/6qHnmJSg">XHTML 2.0</a>, <a href="/facts/XPath/0eCtJoj7">XPath</a>, <a href="/facts/XML_Schema_(W3C)/X6Uly3dm">XML Schema</a>) to ensure XRX applications will be robust in the future. Because XRX applications leverage modern <a href="/facts/Declarative_programming/gogtdzcJ">declarative languages</a> on the client and <a href="/facts/Functional_languages/cdxqPEIM">functional languages</a> on the server they are designed to empower non-developers who are not familiar with traditional <a href="/facts/Imperative_programming/6b5dUnE1">imperative languages</a> such as <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a>, <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> or <a href="/facts/.NET_Framework/J6QDAUhP">.Net.</a> </p>