March 15, 2003

What Is XML?

In the InformIT XML Reference Guide: Waht is XML?

A cousin of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML) provides a human-readable, platform-independent way to represent data, whether it's content destined for a web page or brochure, or data destined for an enterprise database.
Like HTML and their mutual parent, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), XML works on the principle of tags, which delineate elements and content. Consider, for example, the following XML document:
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