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title: "What are the advantages and disadvantages of XML and HTML?"  
description: "What are the advantages and disadvantages of XML and HTML?"  
author: "Shrikant Mishra"  
published: 2019-09-28  
updated: 2019-09-28  
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# What are the advantages and disadvantages of XML and HTML?



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### Reply by Shrikant Mishra

## Advantages of using XML

Here, are significant advantages of using XML :

- Creates transportable documents across systems and applications. With the help of XML, you can rapidly exchange data between different platforms.
- The XML separates the data from HTML.
- The XML simplifies platform change process.

## Advantages of using HTML

Following are advantages of using HTML language :

- The HTML document browser interfaces are simple to build
- HTML works across a system which is otherwise unrelated.
- HTML is easy to understand because it has a very simple syntax
- We can use many tags to make a webpage.
- Allows us to use various colors, objects, and layouts

## Disadvantages of using XML

Here, are few drawbacks of using XML :

- XML requires a processing application
- The XML syntax is very similar to another alternative 'text-based' data transmission formats which are sometimes confusing
- No intrinsic data type support
- The XML syntax is redundant
- Does not allow the user to create his tags.

## Disadvantages of using HTML

Here, are few drawbacks of using HTML :

- The HTML lacks syntax checking and structure
- The HTML is not suitable for data interchange
- The HTML is not context-aware
- The HTML doesn't allow us to describe the information content or the semantics of the document
- The HTML is not object-oriented, so it, not an extensible and very unstable language
- Data storage and interchange of data are not possible using HTML

## Version History HTML and XML

| **History of HTML**\ \| **Version** \ \| **Year** \ \| \| --- \| --- \| \| HTML \ \| 1991 \ \| \| HTML 2.0 \ \| 1995 \ \| \| HTML 3.2 \ \| 1997 \ \| \| HTML 4.01 \ \| 1999 \ \| \| XHTML \ \| 2000 \ \| \| HTML5 \| 2014 \| |  |
| --- | --- |
| **Version** \ | **Year** \ |
| HTML \ | 1991 \ |
| HTML 2.0 \ | 1995 \ |
| HTML 3.2 \ | 1997 \ |
| HTML 4.01 \ | 1999 \ |
| XHTML \ | 2000 \ |
| HTML5 | 2014 |
| ## History of XML \ \| **Version** \ \| **Year** \ \| \| --- \| --- \| \| XML 1.0 \ \| 1998 \| \| XML 1.1 \| 2004 \| \| \ \| \ \| \| \ \| \ \| ## \ |  |
| **Version** \ | **Year** \ |
| XML 1.0 \ | 1998 |
| XML 1.1 | 2004 |
| \ | \ |
| \ | \ |

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