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The markup language that has documents containing structured information is known as XML.

Structured info contains together content words, pictures, etc. Some indication of what role that content plays. In explaining, content in a section caption has a different meaning from content in a footnote that means somewhat different than content in a figure heading or content in a database etc. Nearly all other documents have particular structure.

A markup language is a mechanism to recognize structures in a text. The XML description defines a standard way to add markup to documents.

The sum of applications at present being developed that are making use of, XML documents is really incredible. Mainly when you consider that XML is not so far a year old for our commitments, the word "document" mentions not only to old-style documents, but also to the many of other XML "data formats” These contain vector graphics, mathematical equations, object meta-data, e-commerce transactions, server APIs, and so many other kinds of structured info.

In order to appreciate XML, it is very important to recognize why it was formed. XML was created so that luxuriantly structured documents could be used over the entire web. The only feasible replacements, HTML and SGML, are not practical for this purpose.

Whereas XML is being designed to convey structured content over the entire web, most of the features it lacks to make this practical, make SGML a some more pleasing solution for the creation and long-time storage of compound documents. In many more organizations, filtering SGML to XML will be the normal procedure for web distribution.

XML is defined by some number of related conditions:

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0

• It defines the sentence structure of XML.

Extensible Style Language (XSL)

• XML defines the average style sheet language.

XML Linking Language (XLink) and XML Pointer Language (XPointer)

• It defines an average way to epitomize links between resources.