XML (Extensible Markup Language)

• XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.XML is a markup language;
• It stores data in a structured format with the help of tags. Extensible means you can extend your ability to describe a document by defining meaningful tags for your application. For Example you can use tag to store customer code.
• XML is hardware and software independent markup language. XML stores data in the format that can be interpreted by any other computer language. Therefore XML data can be transferred across any H/W & S/W platform.