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XML

Nobody can doubt the great success of Web technologies. Huge amounts of information are available to people in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) format on the Internet as well as within company intranets and extranets. However, HTML is a rather simple language aimed mainly at the presentation of data (headings, bold type, paragraphs, etc.) rather than the structure of the data.

As Web-based systems increase in complexity and scope, there is a real need to go beyond the presentation of data and provide a better way of data description and exchange. If Web servers became servers of data, not pages, then the client systems could view, manipulate, and update that data to suit them rather than the server/writer. This is particularly true for new services and for differing types of devices used to access web data.

The descriptive capabilities of the World-Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provide the ability to create new and more powerful systems using the web paradigm. This course describes XML, its structure and purpose, and shows the student how XML can be applied in a variety of business systems to transform the way data is viewed and handled.

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