Appendix A. Appendix
XML for BizTalk development
XML has become a nearly ubiquitous format for data exchange over the last decade, but many developers still do not know that much about it. Fortunately for us, most of the process of working with XML is abstracted away with tools that make our jobs easier. This section will provide a very brief introduction to XML that can serve as a basic guide in the event that you have had no XML experience. I would call it a rough survival guide at most.
A brief history of XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a syntax for describing information; originally text documents. XML documents primarily consist of markup and content. Markup describes and organizes the content within it; content is, well, content. Importantly, ...
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