|Chapter 1 - Introducing the X-Team| |XSLT For Dummies| |by
Richard Wagner| |Hungry Minds 2002| XML: Storing Your Data The
original member of the X-Team is eXtensible Markup Language
(XML), the granddaddy of them all. All other X-Team Since its
beginnings, the Web has used HyperText Markup Language (HTML) to
display content. HTML documents are stored on Web servers and
then sent on demand to a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet
Explorer or Netscape Navigator. The browser then displays the
HTML as a Web page. Figure 1-1 illustrates this process. HTML
comes up short HTML has become so wildly popular largely because
its very easy to learn and work with; heck, even my 7-year-old
can create a Web page using Microsoft FrontPage, and my 9-year-
old can write HTML by hand. The markup language was originally
designed purely as a way to format and lay out information.
However, because people have wanted to use the Web for nearly
every task under the sun, HTML has been forced to do far more
than was ever intended. C