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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Chapter 24. XML</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"/></head><body><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 24. XML"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="learnjava3-CHP-24"/>Chapter 24. XML</h1></div></div></div><p>Every now and then, an idea comes along that in retrospect seems just
so simple and obvious that everyone wonders why it hadn’t been seen all
along. Often when that happens, it turns out that the idea isn’t really all
that new after all. The Java revolution began by drawing on ideas from
generations of programming languages that came before it. XML—the Extensible
Markup Language—does for content what Java did for programming: draws on
some old ideas and uses them to provide a portable way to describe
data.</p><p>XML is a simple, common format for representing structured information
as text. The concept of XML follows the success of HTML as a universal
document presentation format and generalizes it to handle any kind of data.
In the process, XML has not only recast HTML, but has transformed the way
many businesses think about their information. In the context of a world
driven more and more by documents and data exchange, XML is an important
foundation technology.</p></div></body></html>