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.
So what XML is used for, is to outsource data. Rather than integrating them into the HTML document, they are stored in separate XML files. Since XML stores data in plain text format, the storage is independent of your platform and your data can be exported, imported, or simply moved much easier.