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Happy 25th Anniversary XML

the markup language that revolutionized internet data sharing

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What is XML

Published, W3C Recommendation. Year started 1996; 25 years ago. Organization World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a revolutionary markup language. It changed the way data was shared over the internet. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

What is my story with XML?

I am not a CODE writer or an IT person. This is not a technical explanation of XML I was a Business Development Executive who sold the data — -B2C, and B2B. I’ll touch on the overview of XML Hopefully, in a way most can understand. And why you should care.

XML is near and dear to my heart. I came on board with XML as a Business Development Executive. I worked for a weather data services company.

When I started my job, NOAA (The National Weather Service). Only allowed (3) exclusive weather data services companies to access their data. The three exclusive redistributors of their raw weather data were Kavouras/Meteorlogix, Accuweather, and The Weather Channel. These vendors took NOAA’s raw weather data into their own NOAA ports. And turned them into free consumer-grade and high-end business products. You see these consumer products everywhere today on your handphone and on TV to name a few. Beautiful colored radar and micro granular current temps and forecasts.

Then NOAA deregulated in the late 1980s. After that anyone could access their data. The billions of bits of data NOAA collected. From their many Government-owned satellites and other sources. Were crunched into a system called an NOAA port.

My responsibility was to sell an XML weather data feed. It was parsed with worldwide weather data.

Through 2000–2010. I serviced many media giants like Bloomberg and the Associated Press. As well as thousands of websites and users of weather data services. Including, the company’s own weather website WX.com.

My main competitors were Accuxweather, Weather Underground (my customer), and The Weather Channel.

My XML weather data feed was created by a company-employee. He said it was the easiest code he ever wrote and the easiest to maintain.

Preceding the dot com bust (2000) the company failed to have a vision for the Internet. But the XML developed proved to be the company’s most profitable product.

What does XML do?

XML bridges this gap by being both human and machine-readable. While being flexible enough to support platform and architecture-independent data interchange.

What are applications of XML

At its core, XML allows a software engineer the ability to create a vocabulary. And use this vocabulary to describe data.

Since the development of XML, several applications have arisen in the areas of (IBM, 2005):

· Web publishing: XML allows you to create interactive pages, allows the customer to customize those pages, and makes creating e-commerce applications more intuitive.

· Web searching and automating Web tasks: XML defines the type of information contained in a document, making it easier to return useful results when searching the Web.

· General applications: XML provides a standard method to access information, making it easier for applications and devices of all kinds to use, store, transmit, and display data.

· e-business applications: XML implementations make electronic data interchange (EDI) more accessible for information interchange, business-to-business transactions, and business-to-consumer transactions.

· Metadata applications: XML makes it easier to express metadata in a portable, reusable format.

· Pervasive computing: XML provides portable and structured information types for display on pervasive (wireless) computing devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), cellular phones, and others.

How to view XML files in a web browser

Conclusion

XML has proved hugely successful in the areas of document mark-up. Data and meta-data sharing, enabling interoperability, and transparently transporting and storing data. With the current level of interest in the next generation of enterprise systems. The use of XML is set to grow as it is a core technology to web services. Portal development and service-oriented architectures. XML is here to stay, and its future looks bright.

Light a candle.

Arlo Hennings, Author
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