The former implies the ability to migrate from one environment to another without modification while the latter allows for cross-platform (or in this case, cross-cloud) deployment.

前者意味着从一个环境迁移到另一个环境而无需作任何修改，而后者允许了跨平台(或者在这里，跨云)的部署。

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XML is used because of its flexible cross-platform support and its ability to add type and structure to the message payloads.

采用XML是因为它具有灵活的跨平台支持和向消息负载中添加类型和结构的功能。

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You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way.

这样也可以编写跨平台应用程序。

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Hence, cross-platform design tools that incorporate support for both HTML-5 as well as the ability to code some features in the native language have risen to fill this void.

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