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What is XML?
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- XML is a document format
- XML is a data format
- XML is an activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) organized and led by Sun Microsystems
- Objective: move the Web to its next stage of evolution by adapting existing international standards for markup, linking, and formatting
- Sources of information about XML:
- http://www.w3.org/TR/
- Standards and drafts
- http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
- Markup technology in general
- http://www.w3.org/TR/
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