Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. XML provides the means to publish and receive any information, regardless of format or origin, in any way desired. With XML, users will be able to manage documents dynamically in a Web browser, allowing the presentation of personalized Web-based information. Authors can define new tag names and attribute names for documents by specifying their syntax and semantics.
Documents can be containers for other documents, with arbitrary nesting.
This allows complex documents to be constructed from simpler documents. If desired, any XML document can contain a description of its grammar so applications can validate that the document conforms to its specified structure. Furthermore, this process of validation can be automated. From this specification, we observe that expressive power, teachability, and ease of implementation, were all major design considerations. As far as XML acceptance is concerned, Microsoft has embraced XML for future releases of its Internet Explorer, and Netscape is considering doing the same for its browser.