Introduction to XML
(Questions and Answers)
Answer: XML is short for Extensible Markup Language, which describes a document. It is a text-based markup language that allows storing data in a structured format. It is also a type of metalanguage.
XML is a markup language like HTML. But XML is different from HTML in the sense that HTML describes how to display and format the data text and images in the browser whereas XML is used to describe the data.
To store self-describing data, XML allows us to create our own tags.
Q2: Is XML structured language or unstructured?
Answer: Structured language
Q3: What is a meta-language?