An Overview of XML

A lot of attention has been given to the extensive support for XML that has been added throughout Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word. In this chapter we will discuss what XML is and what Word's support of XML can do for you.

NOTE

XML features, other than saving documents as XML in the WordML schema format, are available only in Microsoft Office Professional and the standalone version of Microsoft Word.

What XML Is and Does

XML is a text-based language created using the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). XML is like HTML in that it uses a structure of “tags” to identify data elements in a hierarchical manner. Rules are implemented to control the relationships of these tags so that a predictable and consistent structure ...

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