What standards make up Web Services?
The growth of Web Services is being enabled by the widespread adoption of the following technology standards: XML (Extensible Mark Up Language) – is a meta language – that is a “language to create a another language” – in this case the other language is a markup language. A markup language is a language that describes how and where to annotate a document so that computers can identify its semantics (meaning), and the syntax(structure, format), of its data. Using XML allows you to design a markup language, (which can then be formally specified by an XML Schema), describing the information in that document which has significance to you and your business. Although XML was initially developed to add structure to Web documents, it has expanded far beyond its initial scope and has become the standard platform for information convergence. To quote Dave Hollander, CTO, Contivo and one of the original members of the W3C Working Group, which developed XML, “Interchangeable parts drove the Indust
