XML in 10 points. | Translations XML, XLink, Namespace, DTD, Schema, CSS, XHTML ... If you are new to XML, it may be hard to know where to begin. This summary in 10 points attempts to capture enough of the basic concepts to enable a beginner to see the forest through the trees. And if you are giving a presentation on XML, why not start with these 10 points? 1. Structured data includes things like spreadsheets, address books, configuration parameters, financial transactions, and technical drawings. 2. Like HTML, XML makes use of tags (words bracketed by '<' and '>') and attributes (of the form name="value"). 3. Programs that produce spreadsheets, address books, and other structured data often store that data on disk, using either a binary or text format. 4.
Since XML is a text format and it uses tags to delimit the data, XML files are nearly always larger than comparable binary formats. 5. Is the specification that defines what "tags" and "attributes" are. XLink XPointer XML Schemas 1 and 6. 7. 8. Namespace 9.
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