^^XML Extensible Markup Language (XML)

What is XML

Is a cross-platform, extensible, and text-based standard for representing data.

It is also a key technology in the development of Web services.

XML has these subcategories:

Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)

Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)

From: developers.sun.com

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics, it is an XML language for sophisticated 2-dimensional graphics.

SVG is to graphics what XHTML is to text, MathML is to mathematical equations and CML is to the description of chemical molecules.

From: Mozilla SVG Project www.mozilla.org