February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
19h 5m
English
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16. XML
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a general-purpose text file format that is popular for data interchange and data storage. It was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a lightweight alternative to SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). The syntax is similar to HTML, but XML is a metalanguage and as such does not mandate specific tags, attributes, or entities. The XML-compliant version of HTML is called XHTML.
For the popular SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) XML format, the QtSvg module provides classes that can load and render ...