
• XML & Related Technologies
1.5 XML STANDARDS
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed a number of standards for XML. The aim behind
developing these standards is to ensure that all the technologies work together seamlessly, regardless of their
technical differences. In other words, we should be able to create an XML document on Microsoft Windows
using ASP.NET, and use it on a Sun server using Linux in a Java program without making changes.
This section provides an overview of the various XML standards that we will keep referring to.
1.5.1 XML
Quite interestingly, we start with XML as the first standard. At the time of developing ...