XML was designed to transport and store data. To learn more
about XML, read our XML tutorial. XML 1.0 became a W3C
Recommendation 10. February 1998. XML 1.0 (SE) became a W3C
Recommendation 6. October 2000. The second edition is not a new
version, but an update and a "bug-fix". The third edition is not
a new version, but an update and a "bug-fix". XML 1.1 was
released as a Working Draft 13. December 2001, and became a
Candidate Recommendation 15. October 2002. XML 1.1 allows almost
any Unicode characters to be used in names. In XML, element
names are defined by the developer. This often results in a
conflict when trying to mix XML documents from different XML
applications. XML Namespaces provide a method to avoid element
name conflicts. XLink allows you to insert links into XML
documents. XPointer allows the links to address into specific
parts of an XML document. XML Base is a standard for defining a
default reference to external XML resources (similar to <base>
in HTML). XInclude is a mechanism for merging