Basic HTML version of Foils prepared 11 March 99

Foil 34 What is XML?

From Overview of JavaScript II -- From Cookies to Dynamical HTML CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)
The official XML site from W3C
XML = eXtensible Markup Language
XML is a subset of SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language, but unlike the latter, XML is specifically designed for the web
XML is used to define logical document structure
XML is not backward compatible with HTML, but the two coexist quite elegantly
XML can be thought of as an ASCII version of a database

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