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.
1 XML is a markup language much like HTML. 2  XML was designed to describe data. 3  XML tags are not predefined in XML. 4  You must define your own tags. 5  XML is self describing. 6  XML uses a DTD (Document Type Definition) to formally describe the data.