Xml

[Lop]

No one has posted in here so I figured I would.

What is XML?

XML is a markup language for documents containing structured information.

Structured information contains both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.

A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents.

From: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html?page=2#AEN58

Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/

[Jordan]

Nice Post. Making Sticky.

[sigs]

is XML done after HTML so that our websites look much more better?

[Lop]

I think the only XML that HTML uses is the CSS Style Sheets. I could be way off base though.

[brackett]

CSS isn't XML. But, you can write XHTML, which would be the XML compliant HTML syntax.

[Lop]

So what is XHTML? What are the benefits of XHTML? XHTML is the added slash I assume, eg. <br />?

[Frantic]

XHTML is just the evolution of HTML.
Its more strict than HTML in terms of closing tags etc. And yes you need to close empty tags just like you did there.

[Momotaro]

CSS isn't XML. XHTML is the new form of HTML, that uses the XML standards.

[toxifyshadow]

Don't use CSS to style XML, use XSLT, it's a XML styling language, see w3schools.