XML or extensible mark-up language is extensively used when it comes to the Web. What is XML? How did it come into being and why is it the buzzword in the online platform? Starting from mark-up languages, HTML made a mark in presenting well-structured web documents. While the visual aspects of a web-page were taken of, storage of data and transportation of data posed an issue, with repeated references made to the server. The repeated requests to the back-end considerably reduced the download speed and increased the load on the server as well. XML evolved with the purpose of intermediate  →