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What is XML?
Short for Extensible
Markup Language, a specification developed by
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) a body that
develops open standards for use on the Internet. XML
is designed especially for Web documents and provides formal
structure (rules and definitions) for Web documents written
using HyperText Markup Language
(HTML).
HTML
defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using
a variety of tags and attributes. There are hundreds of tags
used to format and layout the information in a Web page or
Web document.
The
structure for a HTML documents looks like this:
<HTML><HEAD>(enter here what document is about)
<BODY>
All the
information to include goes here
</BODY></HTML>
XML and
HTML work together to allow designers such as Microsoft to
create their own customized tags, enabling the definition,
transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between
applications and between organizations.
For
more information about XML and Open XML --
http://openxmldeveloper.org/
And What is ZIP Technology?
More
properly called the ZIP file format, this is a popular data
compression and archival format. Files that have been
compressed with the ZIP format are called ZIP files.
Compressed data files save time and space and make
downloading software and transferring e-mail attachments
faster relative to un-compressed files. Frequently ZIP files
contain more than one uncompressed file. Originally, ZIP
files required a utility such as PKZIP or WinZip for users
to create, modify or uncompress these files. More recently,
Microsoft has includes built-in ZIP support in later
versions of Windows operating system and Apple includes
built-in ZIP support in Mac OS X v10.3 and later. Some
software uses the ZIP file format as a wrapper for a large
number of small items in a specific structure. Generally
when this is done a different file extension is used. |
