PPT Slide
Extensible Markup Language : XML
- was developed by members of the W3C and released as a recommendation in February 1998.
- Html and XML are cousins, they are both drawn from the same inspiration SGML however there are important differences
- html evolved into a markup language that describes the look, feel and action of a web page.
- XML describes what the words in a document are.
while html combines structure and display of a document, XML separates them, makes them portable in a way that enables them to be used in many different types of applications.
- web pages are therefore just one of many uses of XML.
- With XML you can store information about all or pieces of your document. You can then use that information as criteria for displaying it, or other example uses might be in validating digital signatures, sharing data across distributed systems, processing data for other applications or configuring applications at runtime.
- It’s beauty lies in it’s simplicity and it’s customizability (eg. you can agree upon a common format that relates to the type of work that you do and utilize a more “descriptive” vocabulary).