What Is XML?
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a flexible data format used to distribute content to multiple destinations. It can store and organize just about any kind of information in a form customized to your needs, such as a magazine article, catalog of products, or a database of numbers. As an open standard, XML is not tied to any particular platform or application, making it easy to share data between previously incompatible applications.
If you’re familiar with HTML, you’ll notice that XML looks similar. However, these languages are fundamentally different from each other. HTML was designed to display data and control its formatting. Whereas XML was designed to structure data and describe what the information is. Since it is stored ...
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