XmlGen

What are XML design goals?

While designing XML, developed by the XML Working Group (originally known as the SGML Editorial Review Board) created in 1996 under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the board's 10 key design goals were shared as follows:

The XML file is actually just a text file. Therefore, it can be opened and edited with any text editor or web browser. It can also be opened directly with Office programs or development environments. In addition, many viewers and editors are available online. The XML extension is “.xml”, that is, the “.xml” file extension is used for the XML format.

What is XML validation?

XML is a meta markup language used to design application-specific markup languages. Every XML-based markup language is also called an XML application. For example, chemical markup language (CML) is an XML application. Each application has its own semantics and vocabulary, naturally adhering to the syntax. For this situation, we can show the languages used by people as an example; Although human anatomy and brain structure are the same, they are like languages with their own vocabulary and grammar (additional information; Peter Murray-Rust's Chemical Markup Language (CML) may be the first application of XML.)

What are the benefits of XML?

These design goals and all other details are available at the W3C Recommendation On XML. This working group produced the first draft in November 1996 as a result of their work on the design via e-mail and weekly teleconferences and was handed over at a conference. On February 10, 1998, XML v1.0 was introduced as a recommendation of the W3C. You can find detailed information about this working group at this address.

• It must be directly available on the Internet.
• It should be able to support a wide variety of applications.
• It should be compatible with SGML.
• It should be easy to write programs that handle XML documents.
• The number of optional features should be minimal, or ideally none.
• XML documents must be readable and clear.
• XML design should be prepared quickly.
• Its design should be formatted and concise.
• XML documents should be easy to create.
• XML documents should not have ambiguities.