Extensible Markup Language

Extensible Markup Language

A community portal about Extensible Markup Language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Extensible Markup Language is a W3C -recommended general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of... [more]

A community portal about Extensible Markup Language with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Extensible Markup Language is a W3C -recommended general-purpose markup language that supports a wide variety of applications. XML languages or'dialects' are easy to design and to process. XML is also designed to be reasonably human-legible, and to this end, terseness was not considered essential in its structure. XML is a simplified subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly systems connected via the Internet . Formally defined languages based on XML allow diverse software reliably to understand information formatted and passed in these languages.

External XML Resources

  • The W3C’s XML in 10 points is a good introduction to the world of XML, providing a 10 point summary of XML’s basic concepts.
  • The W3C’s XML section will lead you to the XML recommendation, current working drafts, XML media types, and related links and information, including software and book recommendations.
  • Simon St.Laurent’s article for A List Apart, A Child’s Garden of XML, covers XML implementation on the web, concerns, what to look out for, browsers, and related.
  • Robin Cover’s The XML Cover Pages: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an amazingly thorough informational resource all about XML, with links to many other resources, too.
  • XML.com is an entire Web site, sponsored by O’Reilly, devoted to XML. Its goals are to help beginners through advanced users of XML. “A core feature of the site is the Annotated XML Specification, created by Tim Bray, co-editor of XML 1.0 and a contributing editor for XML.com.” Huge resources here in at least a dozen categories, including business, graphics, metadata, mobile, protocols, schemas, style, the Web. Also include features, news, events, buyer’s guide, new resources, training, FAQs.

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