XML Basics

Posted Date: 26 Jul 2009	Resource Type: Articles	Category: XML
Author: Punit	Member Level: Gold
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Need For XML

Organizations keeps data in disparate formats. This makes the process of data interchange complex and time consuming. Following are some limitations of traditional documents,

High Cost,
Limitation for fixed business rules,
No fixed standard.

To overcome this problem organizations uses new language called as XML.XML is Extensible Markup Language that can display data in standard and self describing format.

Introducing XML

XML is text-based markup language that enables you to store data in structured format by using meaningful tags. The term extensible means to extend your ability to describe document by defining meaningful tags for your application.
The advantage of XML lies in Web architecture is that structure of request is obtained from server at run time. XML can encode non relational as well as relational data structures. This enables the server application to extract data from datasource.

Advantages of XML

Domain specific Vocabulary
Data Interchange
Smart searches
User selected view of data
Message transformation.

Applications of XML

E-commerce
B2B communication
Used in Mobile devices
Interoperability between disparate application.

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