What is XML – Extensible Markup Language?
XML is a mark up language which identifies and differentiates all elements of documents. The main advantage of XML is that we can define tags for all different elements and set the relationships between them. XML is for storage of data and not to display and the tags are not static, but we can define our own tags. XML is recommended by W3C – World Wide Web Consortium. Most of the Publishing companies are required to have a very strong presence on the Web. The Web has become a marketplace in itself. Their content has to go online in order to reach out to a large number of people and that too, promptly. Also, the content needs to be updated on a regular basis, if it is a news item. The requirement of going online can be fulfilled with something that does not have platform dependence. This is where XML Conversion comes in. XML can work on any platform. The data is tagged in XML and stored in a predefined structure. This XML generate file can then be read by many parsers, RSS feeds and can
Related Questions
- The Nodal extensible markup language (xml) specification shows dec’ offers monotonically increasing, so a minus sign is not needed to show decrement (DEC). Is that correct?
- How often will there be changes to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format, and will we be notified in advance of such changes?
- What Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard will be followed?
