eXtensible Markup Language. A subset of SGML constituting a particular text markup language for interchange of structured data. The Unicode Standard is the reference character set for XML content. (See also SGML and fancy text.) XML is a trademark of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Extensible Markup Language - A flexible way to create standard information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web.

eXtensible Mark-up Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of Standard Generalised Mark-Up Language, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customised tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.

eXtensible Markup Language. Format for structured documents, and other languages and standards can be created with XML.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is an extremely simple dialect of SGML. The goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML [XML] has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.

XML is the acronym for eXtensible Markup Language, the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. XML is an industry-standard protocol administered by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XML is a key enabling technology for Microsoft .NET.

Short for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is a programming language that enables designers to create their own tags to indicate specific information. The House of Representatives, for example, has recently issued a list of XML tags to be used for Web forms on Member Web sites and other Web sites that send e-mail to congressional offices. The purpose of these forms is to enable correspondence management systems (CMS) and other software to easily identify and process types of information -- such as name, city, state, zip code, issue, etc. -- which will help make the software more efficient and more effective. These tags will help CMS vendors that do not currently offer the ability to process incoming e-mail provide this feature. Back to top

eXtensible Markup Language

Extensible Markup Language

eXtensible Markup Language. A widely used standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that facilitates the interchange of data between computer applications. XML is similar to the language used for Web pages, the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), in that both use markup codes (tags). Computer programs can automatically extract data from an XML document, using its associated DTD as a guide.

(Extensible Markup Language) A simplified dialect of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) that provides a metalanguage containing rules for constructing specialized markup languages.

Extensible Markup Language. Designed to enable the use of SGML on the World Wide Web. XML is a metalanguage (a way to define tag sets) that allows you to design your own customized markup language for many classes of documents. XML is designed for easy and straightforward use of SGML on the web, ease of use in authoring and managing SGML documents, and ease of transmission and sharing of electronic documents across the web. XML is intended to deliver infomration, not just pages. XML preserves the key ideas of SGML, only simplifies them.

Extensible Markup Language is a subset of ISO 8879, Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). XML has been designed specifically to function on the Web, and both major browsers support it. Currently a formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XML is similar to HTML in that both XML and HTML contain markup symbols to describe the contents of a page or file. HTML, however, describes the content of a Web page only in terms of how it is to be displayed. XML describes the content in terms of what the data is that is being described. For example the <authname><affil> tags could indicate that the data following it was an author's name and his affiliation. This allows an XML file to be processed purely as data by a program as well as being displayed in a certain way. XML is "extensible" because, unlike HTML, the markup symbols are unlimited and self-defining.

The Extensible Markup Language is the ‘universal format for structured documents and data on the Web’. It's a derivate of SGML which fits the need of the world wide web. You might want to check the the Extensible Markup Language page at the World Wide Web Consortium for further information.

(eXtensible Markup Language)—A language specialized for Web documents, enabling the creation of tags customized to the company's needs and business logic. It not only has data but also contains metadata. It uses DTD and SCHEMA to describe the data.

The Extensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML designed specifically for use over the Web.

Extensible Markup Language. Like HTML, XML is a markup language, but unlike HTML, it is not limited to Web documents. Another difference is the markup tags in HTML define how the elements thus tagged are displayed, whereas the tags in XML define the data contained in the tagged elements. XML is expected to eventually bring about great changes in the delivery of information on the Web.

Extensible Markup Language, Modification of the SGML standard. In contrast to SGML documents XML documents may exist without having their schema described in a DTD. XML documents consist (mainly) of text and tags, and the tags imply a tree structure upon the document. Is the XML document properly structured, i.e. the tags do nest, the document is said to be 'well-formed'. Is there, in addition, a DTD to which the document conforms, it is called 'valid'.

(eXtensible Markup Language) The data tagging language of web services. XML is not so much a language as a standardized set of rules for adding structure to any form of data using a system of markup tags. Anyone can create their own markup vocabulary (called an XML Schema), and XML ensures that the structure will be intelligible to anyone else who consults the XML Schema document. More importantly, referring to an XML Schema enables XML-aware software to automatically manipulate the data without needing advance knowledge of the structure.

Extensible Markup Language (See Extensible Markup Language

eXtensible Markup Language. A subproduct of SGML created specifically for Internet use.

Acronym for eXtensible Markup Language, a condensed form of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). XML lets Web developers and designers create customized tags that offer greater flexibility in organizing and presenting information than is possible with the older HTML document coding system.

"eXtensible Markup Language" is a standard for data interchange

Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.

An initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple dialect of SGML. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML was designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML