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XML: What it is
- Well-defined syntactic rules for marking up Unicode text,
defining a hierarchy of elements with attributes.
- Official recommendation of W3C (and working through ISO)
- Agnostic as to:
platform, application, API, vendor
- I18N-enabled
- Suitable for complex and recursive structures
- Human-readable
- Parsing is trivial to implement
- Validation is easy to implement, and easy to locate code for
- Companion technologies and standards developing to flesh out the story
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