We will get to that in a minute. The attendant TYPE attribute tells us that the list should be bulleted, rather than numbered. In HTML, browsers are hard-coded and stupid. Easy to use Standardized and ubiquitous Similar to the word processor paradigm, which most people are familiar with Like word processing documents, HTML documents are tagged with style. Those documents are then interpreted for display by browsers that have their display algorithm hard-coded.
Bullets used in lists, for example, often look different on different browsers.
Mostly, XML enables application developers to write their own tag language, determine the rules and hierarchy of that tag language, and display the data in a variety of ways. Let's return to our XML fragment. Presently, a style sheet language called XSL, or Extensible Stylesheet Language, is being discussed by the W3C and has in fact been submitted for approval as a standard. The browser will use the style sheet to determine how the data will be displayed. High-bandwidth users may want the information more intricately formatted.