XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a markup language released in the late 90’s. The XML standard was created by W3C to provide an easy-to-use and standardized way to store self-describing data (self-describing data is data that describes both its content and its structure).
What makes PHP XML truly powerful is the international popularity and acceptance it has gained. Many individuals and corporations have put forth lots of efforts and hard work to develop XML interfaces for databa
ses, programming, office applications, mobile phones and more. It is thanks to their enormous contribution that tools exist to perform these conversions from any platform to standardized XML data or to convert XML into a format used by the platform.
