Xml crash course
You have probably heard a great deal about eXtensible Markup Language (XML) over the
past few years. XML is on its way to becoming the de facto language for communications
between devices, Web browsers, computers, servers, and applications. In time, any two
applications will be able to exchange information without ever having been designed to talk
to each other.
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The XML Design Specs
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The Structure of XML Documents
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XML Syntax
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XML and the .NET Framework
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Xtensible markup language
In many ways, XML is just another file format—one more way to store information.However, XML as a file format is just the beginning. XML promises to liberate information from proprietary file formats and make it possible for information to move among multiple programs on different types of computers without facing the battery of conversion programs and lost information that is currently necessary. XML promises to dramatically increase both
the efficiency and flexibility of the ways in which you handle information. In doing so, XML will have an impact on the way in which you use computers; it will change the way you look at applications.
Fundamentally, XML makes it easy to store information in a hierarchical format, providing a consistent, easy-to-parse syntax and a set of tools for building rules describing the structure used to contain information. The XML format can represent both simple and complex information, and allows developers to create their own vocabularies for describing that information. XML documents can describe both themselves and their content.
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