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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
1 XML = eXtensible Markup Language
2 XML is a subset of SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language, but unlike the latter, XML is specifically designed for the web
3 XML is used to define logical document structure
4 XML is not backward compatible with HTML, but the two coexist quite elegantly
5 XML can be thought of as an ASCII version of a database
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