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HTML's first cousin
Paul Spencer provides an introductory insight into the benefits of using XML to describe structured information.
You have heard about XML (the eXtensible Markup Language) and how it is the latest, greatest thing on the World Wide Web, but why should you care? If you are interested in disseminating structured information, here are four reasons:- XML allows us to assign meaning to data
- XML makes it easy to display data in different formats and even in different media
- XML allows us to use the same data in several applications
- XML
allows terms with precise meanings (such as technical terms) to be centrally
defined
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