XML Full Form Name
Full Form of XML :
Extensible Markup Language
XML Full Form is Extensible
Markup Language. XML is a software tool for transporting and
storing information. In simple terms, it is a markup language to describe data.
The XML is a standard and flexible method used to create formats of information
and share the data structure through corporate networks and public Internet. It
is popular because of its simplicity and easy usability. XML format has become
the base for several official productivity tools such as Open Office, Libre
Office, Microsoft Office, and even Apple’s iWork. It is the base language in
several communication protocols like XMPP. It’s the most commonly used tool for
interchanging data on the Internet. To define the details, XML documents are
nothing but a string of characters.
XML basically characterizes a set
of rules for the purposes of encoding documents available in formats, which are
both machine-readable and human-readable. The W3C’s XML 1.0 Specification is
the one that defines it. It is also defined by various other related
specifications, all of them being free open standards. The XML’s design goals
lay emphasis on generality, usability, and simplicity across the Internet
domain. XML is essentially a textual data format, equipped with powerful
support by means of Unicode for various languages. The primary focus of the
XMLs’ design is on documents but its use is extended for the representation of
various arbitrary data structures, for example, those utilized in web services.
There are many schema systems exist for the purposes of aiding in the
definition of those languages based on XML.
Also, there are several
application programming interfaces (abbreviated as APIs) that have been created
for supporting the XML data’s processing. A brief introduction to a few of XML
terminology will help in better understanding. The Processor, for instance, is
responsible for the analysis of the markup and passage of systematically
structured information to, what is called, an application. Markup, for that
matter, is one of the groups in which the characters constituting an XML
document are divided. The other group is called content. The terminologies are
more in number, with each dedicated for a specific purpose in the design of XML
language such as Attribute, Tag, Element, Application, XML declaration, etc.