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Introduction to XML What is XML? XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language A markup language much like HTML Simplified and extended SGML Why Isn’t HTML Enough? HTML Focuses on presentation only Has no well-defined or definable structural rules Can not express rich structures and semantics XML Describe the data Self-described, semi-structured data Can be queried HTML vs. XML HTML h1 Bibliography /h1 p i Programming Languages /i Kenneth C. Louden br Thomson, 2003 p i Thinking in Java /i Bruce Eckel br Prentice Hall, 2000 XML bibliography book title Programming Languages /title author Kenneth C. Louden /author publisher Thomson /publisher year 2003 /year /book … /bibliography A Complete XML Document ?xml version=1.0“ encoding=“UTF-8”? !DOCTYPE auction SYSTEM “auction.dtd !--This document describes auction information on ebay website -- auction vendor companyebay/company emailwebmaster@/email phone1-800-333-4444/phone item id = “item1” nameMountain Bicycle/name description Used for 2 months, but looks like new /description seller usernamebicycle seller/username feedback99% positive/feedback emailbseller@ /email /seller payment credit card, money order,check /payment price65.00/price cityDallas/city stateTX/state /item item id = “item2” nameThinkpad Laptop Keyboard/name description Used IBM thinkpad keyboard, good condition ! [CDATA[ h1 Keyboard image/h1 The keyboard image is img src=“X31.jpg ] ] /description modelX31/model seller username thinkpad fa