Some advantages of xml
The evolution of xml in 1996. First xml specification was publishes in November 1996. First xml parser appeared in January 1997 and first xml application available till March 1997. Microsoft's internet explorer with xml supports came till fall of 1997. Here are some advantages of XML:
Xml document are easily readable and easy to define itself like html. An xml document contains tags like HTML that indicate data type.
Xml document are hierarchical
Xml is interoperable or you can say totally platform independent we can use it with any operating system, we can also create with any text editor.
Xml parsers work the same way on virtually every platform. The .net platform support for the internet standard XML document Object model.
Xml document have elements that contain data, if we are working with database programming than element can consider as field.
In xml data interchange is possible
In xml user defined tags are possible
Xml documents are reusable and extensible.