2. XML Group # 2 RAHUL A. ANJU B. KIRA C. ASHAVINI L. SHRIKESH M. TERRY W.

3.  What is XML  Needs of a Business  How XML caters to the needs of businesses Overview

4. Business Issues The Good  Efficiency of e-commerce  Tags are specific and personalized The Bad  Different departments have different tags and different lengths The Ugly  Major problems occur when data is being shared between two different companies

5.  Similar to HTML  Origin - SGML  An Extensible Markup Language What is XML?

6.  Automotive Industry  Financial Industry  US Department of Defense Organizations Organizations using XML

7. Technical Description –- –- - –- –- - –- –- - –- –- - – Mongololian Beef – Mongololian Beef – $8.95 – $8.95 – Slices of beef with snow Peas, mushrooms, and vegetables – Slices of beef with snow Peas, mushrooms, and vegetables – – –- –- - –- –- - – Hot and Sour Pork – Hot and Sour Pork – $6.95 – $6.95 – Pork tenderloin with diced bamboo shoots, onions, and peppers in a hot and sour sauce – Pork tenderloin with diced bamboo shoots, onions, and peppers in a hot and sour sauce – – –- –- - (ETC…)

8. Variations   GML – Geographical Markup Language   MathML – Mathematics Markup Language   BIOML - for the annotation of biopolymer sequence information   CHEML – Chemical Markup Language   VoiceXML – for voice related data interchange

9. Alternatives  HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)  JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)  ONX (Open Node Syntax)  YAML (Aint Markup Language)  EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

10. Standards Any specification that is significantly adopted by a diversity of vendors, or is recommended by a respectable, vendor-neutral organization. Any specification that is significantly adopted by a diversity of vendors, or is recommended by a respectable, vendor-neutral organization. TWO MAIN BODIES:  THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C)  THE ORGANIZATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF STRUCTURAL INFORMATION STANDARDS (OASIS)

11. Summary  XML is…  XML & Business  - Issues  - Who Uses XML  Variations / Alternatives of XML  Questions??? THE END END