From HTML to XML
- HTML (V1):
- was one language
- was easy to learn and write by hand
- allowed images to be include in text
- allowed hyperlinks to be put onto text or images.
- combined content and presentation
- had no data typing, no continuous media, no clear
semantics
- XML
- New Data-centric Web applications emerging
- Better tag semantics for specialist information
- Transaction processing using the Web
- Database exchange
- Different views of the same data
- Customisation of information by agents
- Management of document collections
- International publishing: platform, language and media
independent
