May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
XML
This chapter covers the first encoding format listed in the network programmability stack: Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is used to encode the messages of network programmability protocols. Some protocols, such as NETCONF, support only XML. XML was the first data representation language to be developed in the XML/JSON/YAML family. As you will see in this chapter, not only is XML the oldest of the three encoding schemes, but it is also the most powerful. In this chapter, you will also learn the details of XSD (XML Schema Definition), which is used to improve the capabilities of XML for complex applications.
XML is a meta-markup language created to deal with information structures. “Meta” ...