2006-08-17 03:10:05 · 5 answers · asked by abdul s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
XML is just a way of tagging data that follows certain rules.
The tags are arbitrary and should be descriptive of what they contain (i.e. don't use
The basic rules are:
There must be a parent tag (in HTML it would be the tag that surrounds all the others)
All tags must be closed (in HTML that would be or for tags that don't contain anything
).
There are a number of related technologies that use data in XML to work, and a number of parsers used to read XML. For more info on XML and related technologies see http://www.w3schools.com/xml/
2006-08-17 03:18:44 · answer #1 · answered by John J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
XML stands for eXstensible Markup Language. It allows the grammar of any text document to be described in a standard form to facilitate the communication of information between computer systems, while still maintaining a human readable format.
The Markup is delivered in the form of 'tags' which label parts of text according to a common scheme. XML is eXstensible because a design can extend the grammar in any way they choose by defining a new grammar using a DTD or XMLSchema.
Examples of XML include XHTML and GEML.
2006-08-17 08:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by Tim E 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
XML is XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information, generally used for transferring data between different types of applications
Everything about XML : http://www.xml.com/
2006-08-17 03:30:03 · answer #3 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"XML" stands for "Extensible Markup Language. You can think of XML as a method for describing information so that computers (and humans) can understand it easily.
Follow this link
http://www.citationsoftware.com/faqxml.htm
2006-08-17 03:17:48 · answer #4 · answered by dewman_byju 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
xml is a way to write data. it doesn't work, as plain text files (also way to write data) don't work either.
it goes like this:
as you can see, person here is a piece of data, which consist of name and surname. you can arrange any kind of data in that fashion. all tags need to have start tag ie
2006-08-17 03:20:00 · answer #5 · answered by Bruno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋