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XML allows:

  1. People and computers to search for and exchange scientific/business data, commercial products, and multilingual products with ease and speed.

Key design principles:

  1. The eXtended markup language (XML) is a metalanguage -- that is, a language for describing other languages.

  2. XML does not have a fixed set of markup tags -- instead, authors create their own markup language for describing structured data.

  3. XML has built-in internationalization (full Unicode) and platform independence.

  4. Web page content is separated from presentation -- applications decide how the data will be displayed.


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