eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

XML is a language used for data description. It does it independently of applications, protocols, operating systems and pogramming languages used. Its similar to HTML, where we use different tag structures for data definition.

Inside XML Tags we define what data elements are there. In XML, there are no standard tags as we have in case of HTML. In XML, developer can define her own tags.
With common data providing methods, XML has become common format for elecrtonic data tranfer and Web Services which supports Business to Business Transactions.


Here is an example of an XML: