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Using XML

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- In this video, we're gonna take a look at a cousin format of HTML, called XML. So what is XML? You can think of HTML as a special case of XML or you can think of XML as a more generic version of HTML. XML stands for extensible Markup Language. The Markup Language part, of course, is the same as the ML in HTML. It just means that the language is tag based. The extensible part means that we can extend the language itself. It kind of starts from a generic base and then grows infinitely in any direction we want it to. Let's take a look at an example. Here's some sample HTML code and here's some sample XML code. You can see that the first line of both of 'em is a document type declaration, indicating to whatever is reading them that this is what you're reading. It's XML or it's HTML. The next line is opening the root node. So in HTML, that has to be HTML. It can't be called anything else. In XML, we can call that node anything we want, so here we've called it abc. I can then call any of…

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