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PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide
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PHP Advanced for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Larry Ullman
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 42m
English
Peachpit Press
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What Is XML?

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

Figure 9.1. The World Wide Web Consortium (located at www.w3c.org) controls the XML standard among other standards.

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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