www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points


XML in 10 points

  1. XML is for structuring data
  2. XML looks a bit like HTML
  3. XML is text, but isn't meant to be read
  4. XML is verbose by design
  5. XML is a family of technologies
  6. XML is new, but not that new
  7. XML leads HTML to XHTML
  8. XML is the basis for RDF and the Semantic Web
  9. XML is license-free, platform-independent and well-supported

www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1999/jw-04-xml.html


XML opens the Internet and Java programming to portable, nonbrowser functionality. XML frees Internet content from the browser in much the same way Java frees program behavior from the platform. XML makes Internet content available to real applications.