what is XML?

yes, it's another sort of language.

The buzz-word "XML" is beginning to pop up all over the Net, and in the Goodies e-mail box. People are wondering what this new language is and how it's going to effect the way people write. To be honest, I was wondering the same thing until I started looking into it. Avid readers of HTML Goodies already know that XML is mentioned in two other tutorials (as of 5/11/98): HTML 4.0 and the Active Channel Tutorial. The language is starting to make a few in-roads into the Web and that makes a few people nervous. As one Goodies reader put it, "I just got pretty good with HTML, and now they're bringing out this thing." I feel your pain. Believe me, I do. It means that I will need to learn it all first so that I can teach it to you. So, here we go. This first tutorial is an introduction to what the heck this XML thing really is.