XML and Web Services
XML is an acronym for Extensible Markup Language. It is a type of programming language that is often used for web applications. XML is sometimes confused with HTML, which is the language that is used to build web pages. XML focuses more on data storage and transmission as opposed to HTML, which is designed for displaying data. As a tool for … Keep Reading → data transmission, XML is one of the most important components in many web services. Web services are large networks that are designed to carry and transfer information between the different points. Web services are particularly useful for enabling communications among different types of platforms, applications, and hardware types. Though XML and web services are used extensively over the internet, web services have been used for network communication well before the invention of the internet. Network connections of all types continue to rely on web services.
