Preface
XML
The Extensible Markup Language is a powerful document publishing and data interchange format. It was released in 1998 by the World Wide Web Consortium, to immediate and widespread acclaim. XML has a superficial resemblance to HTML, the established language of the Web, but information held in this format is self-describing – it can be extracted, manipulated and formatted to the requirements of any target audience, publishing medium or XML-enabled software application. XML should be of interest to HTML designers who need more flexibility to manage and customize their documents, to SGML users seeking advanced yet modestly priced applications, and to software developers requiring a flexible storage or interchange format that benefits ...
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