What Do I Need to Know About XML?

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an omnipresent language in J2EE web applications. It is used whenever a hierarchical description is needed, for example, to store property values or to define the structure of a web page. The main aspects of XML that you need to know when developing web applications follow.

XML Is a Tag Language XML uses the same syntax elements and structure as other tag languages, such as HTML. Like HTML, XML uses tag elements expressed with opening (“< tag >”) and closing (“</tag>”) tags; each tag element can have multiple properties to make its behavior explicit and customized; some tag elements can be embedded within the opening and closing tags of other tag elements. Therefore, if you ...

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