• An Executive Summary of XML
  • What Is XML
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    Part I:  XML–A Panoramic View




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    Part I:
     XML–A Panoramic View
    Chapter List
    Chapter 
    1:
    XML FAQ
    Chapter 
    2:
    Pioneering the Electronic Frontier
    Chapter 
    3:
    Details, Details
    Chapter 1:
     XML FAQ
    Overview
    This chapter tries to squeeze the essence of XML into a few pages. It is intended for 
    readers who are looking for an executive summary of XML—the more technical aspects 
    are discussed in subsequent chapters. This chapter is for people who don’t have a lot of 
    time and yet want to understand what XML is and how it fits in the grand scheme of 
    things. 
    An Executive Summary of XML
    XML is hot. You’ve heard the hype, you’ve read the reports, and now you want to 
    understand for yourself what it is all about. Great! This book’s for you! We’re skeptics by 
    nature—most engineers are—and words like “killer app” inspire us to come out with guns 
    blazing to shoot down the idea. So it is with a little embarrassment that we have to admit 
    that XML is the real deal.
    In this chapter, we argue our case in the form of a FAQ (frequently asked question) list, 
    answering questions that we’ve been asked and that we asked when we first started. By 
    the time you’ve read this chapter, you should have a pretty good idea of the big picture and 
    have enough information to hold your own at the next informal discussion about hot 
    technologies with your friends and colleagues, bosses and underlings, and maybe even—
    though this may be stretching it a bit— mom and dad.

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    What Is XML?
    XML is an acronym that stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It is a method for 
    describing information so that every computer, and most humans, can understand it. 
    Think of it as the “Esperanto” of the computer world but with one fundamental difference: 
    Everyone can understand it.

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