Extensible Markup Language

Extensible Markup Language

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(communications)

A set of rules for writing markup languages which provides a robust, machine-readable information protocol that can handle complex objects. Abbreviated XML.

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Extensible Markup Language

(language, text)

(XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web.

http://w3.org/XML/.

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