An Introduction to XML

XML is the latest platform-independent and content-dependent technology available for Internet development. XML is the tool of choice for distributing structured information in this age. XML not only fulfills the needs of web authors but also those of anyone interested in publishing. Oracle, IBM and Microsoft are coming out with XML-related software and this gives sufficient indications about the future of XML in the IT industry. This article covers such topics as SGML, HTML and XML, What is DTD - Document Type Definition, Valid and Well-formed XML, Example XML Documents and analysis, and Software for XML.