Chapter 31. XML

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has quickly caught on in industry as the most widely adopted standard for describing and exchanging data in a platform-, language-, and protocol-independent fashion. XML and its auxiliary specifications are used to describe data XML document representations, describe constraints for XML document types, describe links between XML documents and resources, and describe automated transformations and formatting of XML documents. Two key API standards are also defined that facilitate standard interfacing with XML documents and parsers from ...

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