As web developers know all too well, basic HTML (HyperText Markup Language) doesn't provide any structure to Web pages, and the formatting is mixed with the content. To allow Web pages to be structured for automated processing (e.g. electronic commerce), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed an enhancement to HTML. The result were two new languages; one was XSL (eXtensible Style Language), and the other was XML (eXtensible Markup Language), a system for defining, validating, and sharing document formats on the Web.
XML is best known to many bloggers and Netizens as RSS (Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication), which is actually a lightweight XML format used to share headlines and blog feeds.
Read full article: XML (eXtensible Markup Language): An Overview
Author byline: The author is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He keeps a tech blog at Crimson Crux and a literary blog at Slip of the Pen. He is also with Ituloy AngSulong.
