XML
Applications
XML
is the fastest evolving technology for Web Applications. To address the requirements
of commercial Web publishing and enable the further expansion of Web technology
into new domains of distributed document processing, the World Wide Web Consortium
has developed an Extensible Markup Language (XML) for applications that require
functionality beyond the current Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
XML is a universal
language for data on the Web that lets developers deliver content from a wide
variety of applications to the desktop. XML promises to standardize the way information
is searched for, exchanged, adaptively presented, and personalized.
Data such as customer information, credit card transactions, purchase orders,
and fulfillment requests can be converted to XML and shared across applications
without changing legacy systems. XML can be used to exchange data between Web
server and browser or between trading partners without the existing systems needing
any prior description of the data's structure.
