1.1 Background
- XML is a standard for representing structured self-describing data
- Promotes domain-specific standards for communicating and processing
information by special-interest communities (200+ examples)
- Meta data + simple tree data structure => simple programming models
<course>
<number>CIS 788</number>
<quarter>Autumn</quarter>
<days>
<day>Monday</day>
<day>Wednesday</day>
<day>Friday</day>
</days>
<note font="big" sound="loud">Welcome and hope
you’ll enjoy it.</note>
</course>