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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from [[SGML]] (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web. It is a [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3C W3C] recommendation for creating special-purpose [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/markup_language markup languages]. It is a simplified subset of [[SGML]], capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured text and information across the Internet. Languages based on XML (for example, [[XHTML]], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF RDF], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMIL SMIL], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML MathML], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVG SVG], [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSIL XSIL] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT XSLT]) are themselves described in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form. See also the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML Wikipedia Entry].

Some XML benefits in brief:

* Enables internationalized media-independent electronic publishing
* Saves businesses money by enabling the use of inexpensive off-the-shelf tools to process data
* Saves training and development costs by having a single format for a wide range of uses
* Increases reliability, because user agents can automate more processing of documents they receive
* Provides the underpinnings of the Semantic Web, enabling a whole new level of interoperability and information interchange
* Encourages industries to define platform-independent protocols for the exchange of data, including electronic commerce
* Allows people to display information the way they want it, under style sheet control
* Enables long-term reuse of data, with no lock-in to proprietary tools or undocumented formats

==Useful Links==

* http://www.w3.org/XML/
* http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points

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