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.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined by the W3C 's XML 1.0 Specification and by several other related specifications, all of which are free open standards.n addition to being well-formed, an XML document may be valid. This means that it contains a reference to a Document Type Definition (DTD), and that its elements and attributes are declared in that DTD and follow the grammatical rules for them that the DTD specifies.