Getting Started with Structure

Extensible Markup Language (XML) was developed by a group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which included Adobe and other experts from Internet technology companies, business and publishing industry representatives, and information technology professionals. Their goal was to make SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) more flexible and useful to the Web and to expand the audience of users. The result is XML.

The first draft of XML was published in 1996, on the 10th anniversary of SGML, and today it has expanded the usefulness of the Web and gone beyond that to video and wireless devices. And it is proliferating.

Today there are hundreds of users developing XML-specific content applications. Every field ...

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