Language is considered much too complex for widespread e-business and other similar applications. A need for a new language to handle the new demands of the e-business world became clear. The designers of Extensible Markup Language were looking to generate a markup language that would allow the functionality of Standard Generalized Markup Language without the complexity. By strategically omitting large chunks of Standard Generalized Markup Language, they created Extensible Markup Language, which provides roughly eighty percent of the functionality with only about twenty percent of the complexity. Extensible Markup Language became the “RISC computer” of the markup language world. What is HyperText Markup Language?HTML - HyperText Markup Language - as stated above, is a limited subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language. It is a very limited subset of the parent language and provides very limited functionality. Simply, HyperText Markup Language allows the designer to mark up a document with human-readable tags that describe the document’s data and its display format. Documents created in HyperText Markup Language are static, non-interactive, and not dynamic in their generation.The power of HyperText Markup Language was that it, like Standard Generalized Markup Language, allows communication across different computer platforms to occur and that it is relatively simple to master. It is very limiting; however, in the functionality it allows the designer to put into his or her application. Something more powerful was needed. The Web. The Need.In the past the exchange of data has been hindered by the incompatible formats of proprietary hardware and software, as I mentioned above. That was less of a problem when computers rarely communicated to each other. Now, however, communication between different computer platforms is a very common occurrence. And, it is a major obstacle to the spread of global networking and the gr...
