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François CHAHUNEAU: Technologies Director Berger-Levrault Group
INTRODUCTION
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a universal method for the textual representation of structured data according to a standardized syntax. XML was designed to enable data to be exchanged and stored independently of the programs or processes that produce it, and to be produced independently of the programs or processes that use it.
The notion of representation in textual form, i.e. in the sequential form of a tagged stream of characters, is opposed here to that of binary representation. XML has been developed under the aegis of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since late 1996; the XML language, i.e. the set of syntax rules governing the tagged representation of information, is defined very precisely in a W3C recommendation
By convention, we call the result of this representation an XML document, even in cases where the marked-up text stream has no narrative character and is in no way intended to be apprehended by a human reader after it has been formatted on a medium. While XML has many applications in the documentary world, inherited from its ancestor SGML
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The wealth of information available on XML is considerable, whether in the form of books, articles or online information. The books currently available cover the whole spectrum, from introductory works to advanced guides for programmers on standards, tools and APIs.
Among the most interesting websites are the following three, which act as gateways to the XML world.
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