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XML
XML is the abbreviation for für Extensible Markup Language.
A markup language is used to describe data and how information on how to process it.
Markup languages describe the characteristics, associations and processes of words,
sentences and paragraphs of a text. This is done using
"tags".
A generally well known markup language is
HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language). XML is more complex than HTML.
It is a simplified subset of SGML (Standardized General Markup Language).
XML is wide spread used to exchange data between IT systems, especially via the internet.
ASE and XML
ASE
supports creating XML formatted documents from the data stored in the server.
Additionally, ASE can help finding XML documents on the internet.
For this, ASE provides a number of
XML Query functions.
XML external sources
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