Glossary
XML
eXtensible Markup Language. A new emerging Web standard markup language, already under adoption by Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and many others. While originally developed for document presentation, XML may be well applied to the organization of scientific Data both locally and across the Web. Some benefits of using XML are separation of data from presentation,commercial product support, improved search capability, Platform independence, ease-of-use, and ease-of-maintenance.
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