XML Features
Addresses the following areas
- Information interchange and reuse (single-source, multiple outputs)
- Independence from proprietary data storage formats - XML files are stored as text
- Customized data retrieval through use of semantic structure
Purpose: to enable documents with user-defined tags to be served, received, and processed on the Web in a way that is not possible with HTML
Design Goals:
- Ease of implementation
- Interoperability with both SGML and HTML