Introducing XML
Although the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is great for describing how a Web page should be displayed in a browser, the language isnât designed to communicate anything about the contents of a document. For example, telling Internet Explorer to display a worksheet as an HTML table tells you nothing about the data shown on a Web page. When you save your worksheet data to an XML document, however, Excel annotates the data with tags describing which program generated the data, the name of the worksheet, and the data that belongs in each cell. With that information, Excel, or another spreadsheet program that understands XML data, can read in your worksheet data and retain your original meaning.
Although a full discussion of XML ...
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