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HTML Vs XML

HTML is used to display and structure data on web pages, focusing on presentation. XML is used to store and transfer data, focusing on describing data. While HTML uses predefined tags and is not case sensitive, XML uses custom tags that are case sensitive. XML also preserves whitespace and requires closing tags. Overall, HTML is for displaying web pages while XML is for transferring data between systems.

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HTML Vs XML

HTML is used to display and structure data on web pages, focusing on presentation. XML is used to store and transfer data, focusing on describing data. While HTML uses predefined tags and is not case sensitive, XML uses custom tags that are case sensitive. XML also preserves whitespace and requires closing tags. Overall, HTML is for displaying web pages while XML is for transferring data between systems.

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Html vs Xml

HTML’s full form is Hypertext Markup Language, while XML is an Extensible Markup Language. The purpose of
HTML is to display data and focus on how the data looks. Therefore, HTML describes a web page’s structure and displays
information, whereas XML structures, stores, and transfers information and describes what the data is.

HTML is a computer language used to create websites that can be viewed by anyone with internet access. The tags are
the words between the <angle brackets> and separate standard text from HTML code. These are displayed on webpages in
the form of images, tables, diagrams, and so on.

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a programming language created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
XML facilitates encoding documents, defined by a set of rules, in a format that can be read by both humans and machines.

• ATOM and RSS describe how reader apps handle web feeds.
• Microsoft.NET uses XML for its configuration files.
• XML is the basis for document structure in Microsoft Office 2007 and later versions. This is what X stands for
in .DOCX word document format and is also used in PowerPoint (.PPTX files) and (.XLSX) Excel files.

XML is in a textual data format and focuses on generality, simplicity, and usability across the internet. It is used for
representing arbitrary data structures in web services.

HTML x XML Advantages


• HTML helps build a website’s structure and various other advantages, such as Easy to learn and use.
• Supported by all browsers.
• Being plain text, it is simple to edit.
• Easy to integrate with other languages.
• Lightweight
• HTML is the basis of all programming languages.
• The text being compressible, it is fast to download.
• XML is extendable.
• Can be read and understood by all.
• Completely portable and also compatible with JAVA.
• XML is a platform-independent programming language; hence can be used by any system.
• XML supports Unicode
• Using XML, data can be stored and transported at any point in time without affecting data presentation.
• XML document is free of any syntax error.
• Data sharing between various systems is simplified using XML.

HTML x XML Disadvantages


• Can create only plain and static pages.
• A lot of code is required to be written to make a simple webpage.
• HTML security features aren’t very good.
• Complex to write long code for making webpages.
• Takes a lot of time to create a webpage.
• All web pages need to be edited separately; not centralized
• Compared to other text-based formats, XML is redundant and verbose.
• When data volume is large, it results in high storage and transportation cost due to redundancy
in XML syntax.
• Compared to other text-based formats, XML is less readable.
• Due to its lengthy nature, the XML file size is very large.
• XML does not support an array.
HTML vs XML: Key Differences
HTML XML

Is a standard markup language that defines other markup


Is a markup language.
languages.

Is not case sensitive. Is case sensitive.

Is not a presentation language nor a programming


Doubles up as a presentation language.
language.

Tags are defined as per the need of the programmer. XML


Has its own predefined tags.
is flexible as tags can be defined when needed.

Closing tags are not necessarily needed. Closing tags are used mandatorily.

White spaces are not preserved. Capable of preserving white spaces.

Showcases the design of a web page in the Enables transportation of data from database and related
way it is displayed on client-side. applications.

Used for displaying data. Used for transferring data.

Static in nature. Dynamic in nature.

With the help of elements and attributes, objects are


Offers native support.
expressed by conventions.

Xsi:nil on elements is needed in an XML instance


Null value is natively recognized.
document.
Extra application code is not needed to XML DOM application and implementation code is
parse text. needed to map text back into JavaScript objects.

Conclusion:

HTML and XML are related to each other, used to store or carry data, while HTML is used to format and display the
same data, while XML is a standard language that defines other languages.

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