| - XML provides "syntax, not semantics"
- Tags have no predefined meaning
- Unlike HTML, XML by itself conveys only content and
structure, not presentation, behavior, or meaning
- Associating presentation or behavior with XML
requires additional mechanisms
- Industry agreements on the processing of particular XML
languages (example: HTML)
- Downloadable programs, applets, or scripts designed for
a particular XML language
- Stylesheets
- Associating meaning with XML requires
additional mechanisms
- Namespaces (identity hooks for meaning)
- Prose (natural language definitions)
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