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- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
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An update version of HTML that not only describes the way to lay out content on a web page for display and printing, which HTML does, but also describes the nature of the content. XML provides a way of indexing data for retrieval and for other kinds of manipulation. XML provides a simple way to handle data exchange over the Internet.
Related Terms: XHTML (eXtensible HypertText Markup Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary), AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
