XML – at a Glance
XML is a Markup Language stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is a simple, very flexible text format derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML – ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in management, display, organization and the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. The XML standard was created by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to provide an easy to use and standardized flexible way to create “self-describing data” – that describes both its content and its structure to share information on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere.




