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search  homepage  organisation  know how  online forum  Links  registration   login functions main page change main data administrate contact logout  about GBT  FAQ & help tool  goals  conditions  email   lexicon/glossary     search :       0 entries  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z   XML   Extensible Markup Language. A programming language developed by the World Wide Web Consortium; essentially a simplified version of SGML that allows Web developers to create customized tags that will organize and deliver content with more efficiently. XML is a metalanguage, containing a set of rules for constructing other markup languages. By allowing people to make up their own tags, it expands the amount and kinds of information that can be provided about the data held in documents. Some of the advantages are: search engines will be able to zoom in on one particular meaning of a word; new languages can be employed that will allow musical notation and mathematical and chemical symbols to be used as easily as text; e-commerce will become more practical. The World Wide Web Consortium published XML 1.0 in December 1997 www.w3c.org/XML/). Microsoft is a huge proponent of XML, often claiming it will replace HTML and become the next industry standard.