XML
XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) is a new standard in data representation. Particularly useful for exchange of data between computers, especially given that it is platform independent.
XML allows us the manipulate text based data like of the which has never been seen before with such little effort.
Once the data has been manipulated into a form suitable for producing web pages it is then passed through an application that applies a style sheet that generates HTML ready for uploading to a web site.
Traditionally web pages have had their layout and content tightly linked and require a large amount of effort to control the interactions between the content and the layout.
Once the initial design of the data formats and style sheets have been completed, then the process of generating the web pages becomes an automated process.
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