http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2988 is a nice small article by Simon StLaurent about reuse. He starts with programming for reuse, but ends with the benefits he got by just using xml the right way. That xml data is just the data, separated from the program that processes it, thereby making reuse much easier.
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