Following discussions with the British Business Bank (BBB) â the body established by Government that manages the scheme-the bank decided it was appropriate to examine a sample of EFG customer files.
It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, the language is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures such as those used in web services.
The purpose of an XML Schema is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document: 1  the elements and attributes that can appear in a document. 2  the number of (and order of) child elements. 3  data types for elements and attributes.  default and fixed values for elements and attributes.