Chapter 16, Problem 61E

Program Plan Intro

Extensible Markup Language (XML):

• A language that describes a set of instructions used for encoding the information into both human and machine understandable format is called XML.
  • It is used to hold the information (metadata) of any document.
• It is also called as metalanguage because it describes other languages which allows developers to design their own markup languages.
• It is established by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• It is an extended version of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
• The extension of the filename is “.xml”.

XSL:

• The full form of XSL is Extensible Stylesheet Language.
• This XSL is used to convert the XML document into another format that suits for a specific user.
• XSL document also states that the transformation of XML file into other formats like personal data assistant (PDA) document, MS (Microsoft) word document, and so on.