XML : Strategic Analysis of XML for Web Application Development

This work analyzes Extensible Markup Language (XML), the Web technology that promises to become as commonplace as Java or hypertext markup language (HTML). XML simplifies its predecessor, standard generalized markup language (SGML), and vastly expands Web page functionality. In contrast to HTML - a more specific markup language that uses tags to indicate how a browser should display text and other elements - XML manages the content and context of data. This report categorizes the uses of SGML, HTML and XML and compares their benefits and drawbacks.