XML
- XML is a family of technologies: XHTML, SVG, MathML, SMIL, SOAP,
WSDL, VoiceXML, XSL, XML Signature, RDF, XMLSpec, …
- XML is license-free, platform-independent and
well-supported
- Based on Unicode, but allow other encodings (such
ISO-2022-JP)
- XML 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation since 1998