What is XML?

What is XML?

XML, which is short for eXtensible Markup Language. It is a standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is a text based language and has no initially defined tags like in HTML, therefore an extensible markup language, independent platform. The user's operating system, the platform where the software is developed, and the infrastructure of the server are not important for XML if it is used in the web application.

Internet technology consists of social media applications, online shopping and games for many users. Internet users do not realize what works behind these sites they use. As such, the internet environment seems to have a perfect design. Although it may seem easy like this at first glance, quite complex systems work behind the internet. In fact, these systems are constantly changing and developing. The internet, which revolutionized the data exchange and caused a serious leap in human history, continues to transform rapidly today.

One of the central points of this transformation is data exchange. There are now easier conditions for data exchange that takes place in very difficult conditions as it is initially linked to manual settings. XML technology, which has provided great comfort for software developers and programmers since its emergence, thus revolutionizing data technologies, has an important position in this respect.

Why Do We Need XML?

Nearly 90% of the items subject to data exchange in the virtual environment cannot preserve their data properties when they go beyond their own dimensions. This situation alone is a phenomenon that slows down data exchange. For example, when the content of a category, which we use frequently in daily life, is converted to a different size under normal conditions, it cannot carry its data properties to the new environment. Similar things apply to visual, audio, spreadsheet output, and so on. Despite this situation, XML provides possibility for data exchange by creating a common meta-field. In this way, data is queried quickly, data transfer becomes much easier and faster.

Due to the above mentioned hurdle before XML occurred, numerous problems arose when transferring from one database to a different database or platform. Programmers spent a lot of time making the content in the source database available to the target platform. For this reason, the speed of data exchange was incomparably slower than it is today. This annoying obstacle has been removed with XML, which sets a standard in the meta field.

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