 | Level: Introductory Doug Tidwell (dtidwell@us.ibm.com), XML Evangelist, IBM
07 Aug 2002 XML, the Extensible Markup Language, has gone from the latest buzzword to an entrenched eBusiness technology in record time. This newly revised tutorial discusses what XML is, why it was developed, and how it's shaping the future of electronic commerce. It also covers a variety of important XML programming interfaces and standards, and ends with two case studies showing how companies are using XML to solve business problems.
In this tutorial
XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a markup language that you can use to create your own tags. It was created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to overcome the limitations of HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language that is the basis for all Web pages. Like HTML, XML is based on SGML -- Standard Generalized Markup Language. Although SGML has been used in the publishing industry for decades, its perceived complexity intimidated many people that otherwise might have used it (SGML also stands for "Sounds great, maybe later"). XML was designed with the Web in mind.
Objectives - Why XML was created
- The rules of XML documents
- How to define what an XML document can and cannot contain
- How to define what an XML document can and cannot contain
- Programming interfaces that work with XML documents
- What the main XML standards are and how they work together
- How companies are using XML in the real world
Prerequisites
None.
System requirements
You will need JavaScript enabled on your browser.
Duration
Under two hours
Formats html, pdf
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