Xml Based Technologies
Dated: 25 Oct, 2010 06:22:01 AM
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What is XML, XML is a set of guidelines that specify how the document should be created. There are many technologies that have been developed using the XML guidelines. These technologies are collectively called as XML based technologies as they are following XML guidelines.
Some of these XML based technologies are:
- XHTML (eXtensible HTML): a stricter and cleaner XML based version of HTML
- XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language): Used to transform XML into other formats such as HTML
- XSD (XML Schema Definition): An XML based standard for defining legal elements in XML document
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol): An XML based protocol to let applications exchange information over HTTP
- WSDL (Web Services Description Language): An XML based language for describing web services
- RSS (Really Simple Syndication): A format for syndicating news and the content of news-like site. Many sites use RSS to publish their contents to subscribers.
- WAP (Wireless Application Protocol): A XML based language for displaying content on wireless clients, like mobile phone.
Be informed that these technologies specifies the structure of XML document; these technologies only specify the grammar; that is, what there, which tags can be nested inside another, what attributes are allowed, etc. The actual interpretation of the XML content is done by the consuming application.
For example
- the mobile based browsers know how to handle the tags defined in WAP.
- the RSS readers know what is meant by which RSS tag.
You can also create your own XML based technology.
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