Define Extensible Markup Language

Briefly explain Extensible Markup Language (XML).

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XML is a flexible and a simple markup language in text format. At present, this is extensively used to exchange large variety of data over Internet. XML consists of the data as text in the well-defined customized layouts through using self-defining tags. User-defined tags are user friendly as they contain a name given by the user and make the information simply understandable to the user. User-friendly features made XML to be extensively used as the standard data-interchange format. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) regularly develops new standard for the XML usage by various software vendors and the solution providers. XML plays a very important role with respect to the .NET Framework 4.0. The .NET Framework 4.0 provides us with the namespace known as System.Xml that includes classes which are used to work with the XML.

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