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## Exchanging Data via XML: Source to XML, XML to Target with Portal-to-Go

With XML as an intermediate format, you can take data from any source and deliver it to any device. Suppose you have a Web application that provides stock quotes and headlines, and you want to deliver the information to a mobile phone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant, such as a Palm Pilot).

Because each device has specific requirements for formatting content, you cannot send the same data to each device. How would you do it? Portal-to-Go defines an intermediate data format in XML. It also provides tools that allow content providers to perform the following tasks:

- Extract source content

- Convert source content to XML

- Transform XML to the markup language for each device

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