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Extensible Markup Language

XML is a language for structured documents and data. It allows users to define their own elements and tags to carry data, rather than focusing on display. XML is extensible, case sensitive, and requires properly closing all tags. It was created as a simplified version of SGML to structure information and exchange data on the web.

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Extensible Markup Language

XML is a language for structured documents and data. It allows users to define their own elements and tags to carry data, rather than focusing on display. XML is extensible, case sensitive, and requires properly closing all tags. It was created as a simplified version of SGML to structure information and exchange data on the web.

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XML

EXtensible Markup
Language
WHAT IS XML?
•XML stands for extensible markup
language.

•It is a language for documents


containing structured information.

•XML was designed to carry the data


not to display it.
•XML tags are NOT pre-defined.

•You can define your own tags like


<name> xyz </name>.

• Extension of XML file is .xml.


eg. filename.xml

• XML tags are case sensitive.


eg <CITY> <City> are unique.
XML FACTS
•Officially recommended by W3C
since 1998.

•A simplified form of SGML


(Standard Generalized Markup
Language).

•Primarily created by Jon Bosak of


Sun Microsystems.
• Bridge for data exchange on the
Web.

• Basic REQUIREMENTS for XML


are text-editor like notepad and web
browser(above internet explorer 5).

• XML tags and content are shown


in a browser as a tree.
XML TREE
<Contact>
            <Name>xyz</Name>
            <Email>my email</Email>
</Contact>

CONTACT
(root)

NAME EMAIL
(child) (child)
COMPONENTS OF XML

There are 3 components for XML content:


-the XML document
Contains root, child elements.

- DTD (Document Type Declaration)


Defines rules , entities , elements,etc.

-XSL (Extensible Style sheet Language)


Defines XML document transformation and
presentation.
COMPARISON BETWEEN HTML
AND XML

XML HTML
 Extensible set of tags  Fixed set of tags
 Content orientated  Presentation oriented
 It is case sensitive.  It is not case sensitive.
 It is mandatory to  It is not mandatory to
close all tags.
close all tags.
WHY XML?
• Richly structured documents.

• It removes two constraints which were


holding back Web developments:
1. dependence on a single, inflexible
document type (HTML)
2. the complexity of full SGML, whose
syntax allows many powerful but hard-
to-program options
• Plain Text
 Easy to edit
 Useful for storing data .

• Data Identification
 Tell you what kind of data you have
 Can be used in different ways by different
applications
XML EXAMPLE
<BOOKS>
< id>
<author>Hull</author>
<title>California</title>
<year> 1995 </year>
</id>
<article>
<author>Su</author>
<title> Purdue</title>
</article>
</BOOKS>
BOOKS

id article

author year
author title

title

Hull 1995 Su Purdue


California
Output:
CONCLUSION
•Exchange data.

•Store data

•Makes data more useful.

•Used to create new languages.


THANK
YOU

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