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Advantages and Disadvantages of XML
The advantages of XML are:
• It is much simpler compare to SGML
• XML documents can be Valid or Well Formed without a DTD (deducing the semantics from the structure of the document)
• Linking is very much simpler in XML than in SGML, but also much more intelligent than HTML
• No longer restricted a limited set of tags, you can create your own set of tags.
• XML is very powerful, yet easy to implement, not limited on data structures
• It is in text format, Human readable and easy to edit
The disadvantages of XML are:
• DTDs cant located on the Internet
• There is no guarantee that all browser currently support XML, although now some browser now currently capable of interpreting XML, example are IE 5 and Netscape.
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. For example, computer makers might agree on a standard or common way to describe the information about a computer product (processor speed, memory size, and so forth) and then describe the product information format with XML. ... XML can be used by any individual or group of individuals or companies that wants to share information in a consistent way.
XML, a formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is similar to the language of todays Web pages, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Both XML and HTML contain markup symbols to describe the contents of a page or file. ... XML describes the content in terms of what data is being described. ... This means that an XML file can be processed purely as data by a program or it can be stored with similar data on another computer or, like an HTML file, that it can be displayed. ...
XML is "extensible" because, unlike HTML, the markup symbols are unlimited and self-defining. XML is actually a simpler and easier-to-use subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), the standard for how to create a document structure. It is expected that HTML and XML will be used together in many Web applications. XML markup, for example, may appear within an HTML page.
Early applications of XML include Microsofts Channel Definition Format (CDF), which describes a channel, a portion of a Web site that has been downloaded to your hard disk and is then is updated periodically as information changes. ... Another early application is ChartWare, which uses XML as a way to describe medical charts so that they can be shared by doctors. ...
XML applications provide many advantages. ... XML makes it easy to send structured data across the web so that nothing gets lost in translation.
Enable Business to Business Communication
When using XML, I can receive XML-tagged data from your system, and you can receive XML-tagged data from mine. ... If the data sent to an agent is structured with XML, its much easier for the agent to understand exactly what the data means and how it relates to other pieces of data it may already know.
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