Chapter 10. XML Development
EXtensible
Markup Language (XML) is a metamarkup language for text documents
that allows you to store information in a self-describing format.
With XML, you organize information by surrounding it with
user-defined, human-readable tags, similar to those used in HTML, but
not limited to the tag names used by HTML. Instead, tag names are
chosen that best describe the information they organize. XML
organizes information hierarchically. In addition, the character set
used to encode an XML document is specified within the document.
Combined, these features make XML a universal format for information
exchange.This chapter starts with a brief introduction to XML. Next, it
introduces the various relevant XML standards that exist and examines
the support Oracle Application Server provides for these standards.
We cover the support in various programming languages such as C, C++,
Java, and PL/SQL. Then we include an overview of the XML tools that
Oracle Application Server provides for XML development. The chapter
finishes up with a glimpse at how some of the Oracle Application
Server components employ the use of XML.