Introduction to Xml
XML (eXtensible Markup language) has been developed by the WWW Consortium (also known as W3C) nearly ten years ago with purpose to create a language that could be read by a wide range of machines and softwares. Xml is platform indipendent and it is actually used for sharing, exchanging, storing and carrying data.
A general purpose specification, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used to create custom markup languages. The element scan be defined by the users themselves, and the language can encode text and data. This allows processing content without a lot of human or machine intervention, and exchanging it across diverse hardware operating systems and applications. A typical examples are XML files generated to give real time updates in online systems and websites, and other trading circuits. Xml can be used to make two machines communicate with each other without any help or human intervention, propelling Artificial Intelligence or event for complicated finance and trading forex transations, automated through a common, well-defined protocol. The information processed can be used with various development utilities and tools. XML is similar to HTML. Both XML and HTML are related to Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).