
Introduction to XML •
We can summarise the usages of XML:
• XML can define data structure.
• XML is platform-independent – hence, the created data structures are independent of the programming
languages, operating systems, hardware, etc.
• XML allows us to create our own data structures with ease.
• Plenty of tools are available for automatic processing of XML documents.
1.2 XML VERSUS HTML
Having understood the basic need for XML, let us now go one step further. Here, we will try to examine what
is so unique about XML that it should start becoming the world’s leading data exchange mechanism. Also,
most of us would know that Hyper Text ...