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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Andrew Gorman wrote: > I'm quite new to the world of XML, and am doing research to learn more about > the language. It seems to me that XML can be adapted to whatever usage > required, and it seems that it is renamed each time, or better put, a prefix > is added. If it is specifically used for advertising, it is called adxml, > commerce is cxml. Is this a common thing? And does this make it difficult > to be viewed by other people? or is it that regardless of the prefix, the > language doesn't change, and it is just its intended use that marks the > difference. Despite its name, XML isn't a language itself; it's a set of rules for creating whole families of languages. The rules are strict enough that documents (data) in many different XML-derived languages can be processed using generic tools and the definitions of the languages can be quite informal, but the specific languages are still distinct. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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