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[01/12/2009] XML
XML or Extensible Markup Language is a group of rules which are used for converting documents into a coded form electronically and XML 1.0 Specifications defines it. Designing goals of XML are emphasizing usability, generality and simplicity over the Internet. It is a data format in text, with support of Unicode for all languages spoken around the world. Characters of XML based documents are categorized into markup and content. Content and markup can be distinguished using application of syntactic rules. Markup construct which begins with '<' that ends with '>' XML documents begins with information about itself, such as in following example.< ?xml version="1.0 or later" encoding="UTF-8 or other" ? >
Formats based on XML have become pre-selected option for office-productivity tools which includes Apple’s iWork, Microsoft office, OpenOffice.org.
