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Characters and escaping
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Applications
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Schemas and validation
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Programming interfaces
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Key facts & relationships
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- Abbreviation
- XML
- Base standards
- SGML
- Domain
- Serialization
- Editors
- Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, John W. Cowan
- First published
- February 10, 1998; 28 years ago (1998-02-10)
- Latest version
- 1.1 (2nd ed.) September 29, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-29)
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Markup language
- File format
- Documents Electronic document
- Human-readable
- Machine-readable Machine-readable data
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Open standards Open standard
- Internet
- Unicode
- Human languages
- Data structures Data structure
- Web services Web service
- XML schema
- Application programming interfaces Application programming interface
- Serialization
- Lingua franca
- Metadata
- IETF History of the Internet
- Media types Media type
- Semantics
- SVG
Applications
- RSS
- Atom Atom (web standard)
- Office Open XML
- OpenDocument
- COLLADA
- XHTML
- Communication protocols Communication protocol
- SOAP
- XMPP
- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) Ajax (programming)
- Health Level 7
- OpenTravel Alliance
- FpML
- MISMO
- National Information Exchange Model
- Darwin Information Typing Architecture
- IWXXM
Key terminology
- Specification
- Every Valid characters in XML
- Processor Process (computing)
- Parser Parsing
- Syntactic rules Phrase structure rules
- CDATA
- Name–value pair
- CSS
Characters and escaping
- Control characters
- C1 C0 and C1 control codes
- BMP Basic Multilingual Plane
- U+0000
- Bytes Byte
- UTF-8
- BOM Byte order mark
- UTF-16
- ASCII
- ISO/IEC 8859
- Escape Escape sequence
- Glyphs Homoglyph
- Nonbreaking space
- Space Space (punctuation)
- Numeric character reference
- Null character
- Base64
- SGML
- Chinese Chinese character
- Armenian Armenian alphabet
- Cyrillic
Syntactical correctness and error-handling
- Well-formed Well-formed element
- None missing Tag omission
- HTML
- Postel's law
- Valid XML document XML validation
- Well-formed XML document
- Document Type Definition
Schemas and validation
- Document type definition
- Standard public entity sets SGML entity
- Features Feature (software design)
- Namespaces XML Namespace
- Macros Macro (computer science)
- Regular expression
- SAX Simple API for XML
- XML Schema XML Schema (W3C)
- Initialism
- Datatyping Data type
- RELAX NG
- OASIS OASIS (organization)
- DSDL
- Isomorphic
- James Clark James Clark (programmer)
- Datatype
- Plug-ins Plug-in (computing)
- Schematron
- Assertions Assertion (computing)
- XPath
- Routing
- Publishing
- Infoset
Related specifications
- XML namespaces XML namespace
- Naming collisions Naming collision
- XML Base
- XML Information Set
- XSL
- XSLT
- XSL-FO
- XQuery
- XML databases XML database
- XML Signature
- Digital signatures Digital signature
- XML Encryption
- Encrypting
- Above XML
- XInclude
- XLink
- XPointer
Programming interfaces
- XML Infoset
- APIs API
- StAX
- DOM DOM (XML API)
- XML data binding
- LINQ
- Scala Scala (programming language)
- Lexical Lexical analysis
- Event-driven Event-driven programming
- Callbacks
- Methods Method (computer science)
- Handler object Event handler
- Iterator design pattern Iterator pattern
- Recursive descent parsers Recursive descent parser
- Perl
- Java Java (programming language)
- Smalltalk
- PHP
- Python Python (programming language)
- Red Red (programming language)
- .NET Framework
- Document Object Model
- Node Node (computer science)
- Objects Object (computer science)
- Bindings Language binding
- Memory
- Java Architecture for XML Binding
- GSOAP
- First-class data type
- ECMAScript for XML
History
- Profile Profile (engineering)
- World Wide Web
- Dan Connolly Dan Connolly (computer scientist)
- Sun Microsystems
- Jon Bosak
- Working group
- Michael Sperberg-McQueen
- James Clark James Clark (XML expert)
- Tim Bray
- Netscape
- Jean Paoli
- W3C
- Processing instructions Processing instruction
- Character set Character encoding
- TEI Text Encoding Initiative
Versions
- EBCDIC
- Redundancy Redundancy (information theory)
- Balinese Balinese script
- Cham Cham script
- Phoenician Phoenician alphabet
- Control characters Control character
- Skunkworks Skunkworks project
- John Cowan John W. Cowan
- Fast Infoset
- ASN.1
- ITU-T
- ISO
- Efficient XML Interchange
Criticism
Advanced semantic analysis
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.XML
Nodes200
Edges199
Triples348
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
Quick relationship hints grouped by predicate. Useful for spotting recurring semantic connections around the current entity.See the strongest relationship patterns around the current topic before diving into the raw triples.
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Top relations
related to Related specifications · 28
XML → Although XML Namespaces, DSDL, Extensible Stylesheet Language, HTML, ISO/IEC, It, Part, PDFs, Schema Association, The, URI, XML Base, XML Encryption, XML Information Set, XML Infoset, XML Namespaces, XML Path Language, XML Query, XML Schema, XML Signature
related to Pull parsing · 25
XML → API, Code, DOM, Edit, ElementTree, Examples, Java, NET Framework, NodeIteratorandTreeWalker, PHP, Pull, Pull-parsing, Python, Red, SAX, Smalltalk, SmartXML, StAX, System, The
has application · 22
XML → AJAX, Asynchronous JavaScript, Atom, COLLADA, Darwin Information Typing Architecture, FpML, Health Level, Hundreds, In, Internet, It, Many, MISMO, National Information Exchange Model, Office Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenTravel Alliance, RSS, SOAP, SVG
related to XML as data type · 21
XML → Adobe Actionscript, E4X, ECMAScript/JavaScript, Facebook, Java VM, JavaScript, JSX, Linux-like, Microsoft, Microsoft's LINQ, Mozilla, NET, PHP, Scala, Similar, The, The ECMAScript, The Resource Description Framework, XHP, XMLList
related to Sources · 20
XML → Asian Documents, DTDs, ERCS, Extended Reference Concrete Syntax, From SGML, HTML, IS, ISO, ISO-related China/Japan/Korea Document Processing, Other, SGML, SPREAD, Standardization Project Regarding East, TEI, Text Encoding Initiative, The ERCS, The SGML, To, Unicode, WebSGML Adaptations
related to External links · 16
XML → Archived, Extended Reference Concrete Syntax, FAQ, Future, Java, Jon BosakThe Official, Markup Validation ServiceThe XML, Official, Peter Flynn, Rick JelliffeXML, SpecificationRetrospective, W3C, W3C's XML SIG, Wayback Machine, Web, World Wide Web Consortium
related to RELAX NG · 13
XML → DSDL, ISO/IEC, It, James Clark's, OASIS, Part, Regular Language, Regular-grammar-based, RELAX NG, Trang, XML Next Generation, XML Schema, XML Schema Datatypes
related to Data binding · 12
XML → By, DOM, Example, IDEs, It, Java Architecture, JAXB, NET Framework, The, This, XML Binding, XML Serialization
related to history · 12
XML → Bosak, By, Dan Connolly, Internet, ISO, Jon Bosak, SGML, Sun Microsystems, The, W3C's, Web, World Wide Web
related to Valid characters · 11
XML → BMP, C0, Carriage Return, D7FF, E000, FFFD, FFFE, FFFF, Horizontal Tab, Line Feed, Unicode
Important terminology Word statistics
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Important terminology
document data schema unicode characters language use used languages sgml syntax character specification documents information also programming standard code defines
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XML | Abbreviation | XML | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Base standards | SGML | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Domain | Serialization | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Editors | Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, John W. Cowan | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | First published | February 10, 1998; 28 years ago (1998-02-10) | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Latest version | 1.1 (2nd ed.) September 29, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-29) | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Organization | World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Related standards | W3C XML Schema | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Status | Published, W3C recommendation | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | Year started | 1996; 30 years ago (1996) | 1.00 | infobox |
| XML | is a | document type definition | 0.90 | text |
| XML | is a | self-describing language | 0.90 | text |
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Clusters of nearby vocabulary surrounding the topic. Scan them for adjacent concepts and language you may have missed.These clusters group vocabulary that occurs around closely connected concepts in the source material.
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Bridge nodes connect otherwise separate parts of the map. Expand a row to inspect the topic groups on each side.Bridges can reveal useful research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list of related terms.
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