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Getting Started with Structure
Extensible Markup Language (XML) was developed by a group of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), which included Adobe and other experts from Internet technology
companies, business and publishing industry representatives, and information
technology professionals. Their goal was to make SGML (Standard Generalized Markup
Language) more flexible and useful to the Web and to expand the audience of users. The
result is XML.
The first draft of XML was published in 1996, on the 10th anniversary of SGML, and
today it has expanded the usefulness of the Web and gone beyond that to video and
wireless devices. And it is proliferating.
Today there are hundreds of users developing XML-specific content applications. Every
field is finding that markup languages can organize huge volumes of data into usable
forms in short enough time to be useful. XML documents can flow directly into Chemical
Mark Up Language, Mathematical Mark Up Language, Web Interface Definition
Language, and Synchronized Multimedia Interface Language.
New markup dialects, such as chemistry, biology, math, astronomy, and commerce are
being developed for industries all over the world. Scientists in China can exchange with
scientists in the USA, formulas and molecular structures drawn from the same data via
XML.
XML integrated into FrameMaker 7.0
Structured FrameMaker 7.0 and its handling of XML is a simplified but descriptive and
powerful application for handling data transfers from one channel to another. It takes
data beyond word processing and desk-top publishing, which are no longer adequate. It
grew out of the need to structure documents beyond style sheet considerations.
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