About XML

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

This might not be the right forum for this type of question but because
there is a lot of XML that is sorrounding .NET somebody might have an answer
to this question.

The question is: When the internet become to grow both in popularity and
complexity there was apparent that HTML was not good enought so XML was
developed as a structured markup language.

What was it more specifically that was XML so much better than HTML to use
in internet.

I know XML quite well.


//Tony

 

[Dejy]

XML is not especially dedicated to the Internet, it is a general document
type for any application requiring structured data complying with the XML
syntax and capabilities, like databases, lists,.....

Denis

 

[Pavel Minaev]

Hello!

This might not be the right forum for this type of question but because
there is a lot of XML that is sorrounding .NET somebody might have an answer
to this question.

The question is: When the internet become to grow both in popularity and
complexity there was apparent that HTML was not good enought so XML was
developed as a structured markup language.

What was it more specifically that was XML so much better than HTML to use
in internet.

Well, for one thing, HTML is not a general purpose markup language -
it's a Hyper Text Markup Language. XML, on the other hand, is a
general-purpose markup language.
Comparing the two is simply meaningless. You can compare SGML (which
is a general-purpose markup language of which HTML is one application)
and XML (of which XHTML is one application). If you do that, then it
should be rather obvious what the benefits of XML are (mostly
simplicity).