Glossary

A language that has numerous purposes yet gets pushed to the wayside regularly in our industry is XML. Being more flexible than HTML in syntax it’s almost sort of a Swiss Army knife in its unique and multi-functional purpose. utilized in numerous aspects of the online — from software UI settings non-SQL local databases public APIs of third-party services like Twitter’s Sitemaps and syndication formats like RSS — it’s become a mainstay of web development. curiously enough while XML is so durable it’s not generally considered a core requirement to understand . However remember that with the online constantly evolving the necessity for XML is merely likely to extend to deal with our diversifying data needs.