December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 42m
English
XML, which is controlled by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (Figure 9.1), was created with several goals in mind:
To be a regulated standard, not the proprietary technology of any one company
To act as a highly flexible way to store nearly any type of information
To be easily readable by humans and usable by computers
To be able to check itself for validity and integrity

While XML itself is not actually a markup language—despite its name—it provides a foundation for you to manufacture your own markup language. A markup ...
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