What is XML?

Category: Education

Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its effect in altering the application development is the latest buzzword in the IT industry. XML is being considered as the most exciting new development in Web technology. Users of HTML will be amazed by the flexibility of XML. Complex web pages that integrate multiple sources of data or required dynamic behavior can be achieved easily by using XML. It supports many special purpose applications for businessman, chemists, document author, scientists, and mathematicians and so on. Schema A Schema is a set of rules to constrain the structure and expressive the information set of XML documents. A Schema describes a model for a whole class of documents. DOM The Document Object Model (DOM) is a programming interface for XML documents. It defines how XML documents can be programmatically accessed and manipulated. XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is an XML application with the help of which one XML document can be transformed into another XML document or another format. DSO The XML Data Source Objects (DSOs) is a Microsoft ActiveX control, built into Microsoft Internet Explorer. DSO helps in formatting and displaying data on an HTML page.