Introduction to XML and its applications

To understand how to create new markup tags. The XML standard was created by W3C to provide an easy to use and standardized way to store self-describing data (self-describing data is data that describes both its content and its structure).XML is nothing by itself. The main benefit of XML is that you can use it to take data from a program like MSSQL (Microsoft SQL) convert it into XML and then share that XML with a slough of other programs and platforms. Each of these receiving platforms can then convert the XML into a structure the platform uses normally and you have just communicated between two platforms which are potentially very different.