November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
11h 3m
English
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A universal format for data has been sort of a holy grail. Both software developers and end users have long sought some standard way of identifying data to different applications and for different uses. Extensible Markup Language (XML) comes close to becoming this standard. Officially XML is a platform-independent markup language used for structured documents. This means that the structure of the document is defined by tags that identify the different elements of the document. Similar to HTML, XML uses tags to bracket the data. These tags define what the specific data represents and how it fits in with the rest of ...
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