Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
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XML (eXtensible
Markup Language)
lIn essence, it is about meaningful annotation
lSyntactically, XML docs look like HTML docs
lXML documents can be:
–Well-formed
(conforms to the XML syntax)
–Valid
(conforms to its DTD)
lExtends HTML linking capabilities:
–Xlink:
how two documents can be linked
–Xpointer: enables addressing of individual parts
–Xpath: used by Xpointer to describe location paths