Computer Bits: XML — The new language of the Web

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 25, 1999

“Just hang with me for a few pages and, soon enough, you’ll be
able to put XML in your hip pocket…”

“If you know something about Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),
then you’ve already got a foothold on XML…”

“XML is different from HTML because it’s, well, extensible. That
means that, while HTML has a fixed set of tags, you can create your
own tag set with XML. That’s right, you don’t have to wait around
for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) HTML committee to finish
haggling about the next version of HTML. You can write your own
markup language and pretty much make it do what you want…”

“Enough history. Let’s move on to what XML can do. XML, by the
way, isn’t really a markup language in and of itself. It’s better
described as a set of rules for creating markup languages. Armed
with this knowledge, you are ready to create a little markup
language of your own…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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