XML Overview

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XML is a computer language – but this hardly does justice to something that has been at the root of the social and economic revolution brought about by the World Wide Web.

The Web might still be just a collection of pages if it were not for XML. XML is the Esperanto of digital communications, enabling disparate systems to talk a common language to one another.

XML is a key technology in the ‘e-revolution’ in our schools and hospitals, in government, as well as in many business sectors. XML is a key technology in a growing range of computer software applications, including market leaders among office applications and accounting systems.

Its flexibility drives innovation. Its robust design drives consistency and reliability of implementation. It’s here to stay…

… but normally you won’t even notice it’s there, so we have deliberately introduced some XML into this page that you can see.

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