Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 Specification of 1998 and several other related specifications, all of them free open standards, define XML.
Facts
First Released ParadigmDeclarative markup, data interchange format 1 SignificanceBecame the common format for exchanging structured data between systems across the internet. 1 Connections
Associated With
General knowledge, not independently re-fetched: XPath (a W3C recommendation) is a query language for selecting nodes from XML documents.
General knowledge, not independently re-fetched: XQuery (a W3C recommendation) is a query and functional programming language designed to query XML data.
Built On
Direction correction: XML is a simplified subset of SGML, not the reverse.
Influenced By
Source Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Wikipedia: XML
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: First appeared
1996
Lead section
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data.
Article body, usage discussion
XML has come into common use for the interchange of data over the Internet.
View the Source Standard Generalized Markup Language (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced By: SGML, Derivatives, XML subsectionQuote, Influenced By: SGML, Derivatives, XML subsection
The W3C XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a profile (subset) of SGML designed to ease the implementation of the parser compared to a full SGML parser, primarily for use on the World Wide Web.
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