Another Forum!

[a_priebe47]

It's good to see another (hopefully) worthwile forum. I intend on seeing what goes around for I don't even now what XML is.

[sicarius]

XML is eXtensible Markup Language.

XML is a proper subset of SGML.

HTML is also descended from SGML.

HTML defines specific tags and users can't change what those tags mean.

XML allows a user to create their own tags.

XML says that "Data is data and can be represented how ever the program decides.

In essence XML provides structure for general data without specifying how that data should actually be "used".

In other words, XML is structured so that any XML document (valid document) can be parsed simply, and the actual data can be used however the program that parsed the XML decides.

XML is good for file formats.
XML is good for simple, local, databases.
XML is good for web services.
XML is good for transmitting data between applications.