xml

XML or extensible markup language is exactly what the acronym says. XML is a non-proprietary textual representation of data/strings and atributes.XML structure is defined by a schema or a DTD (document type definition). There are a number of clinical research/health care standards based on xml such as HL7, CDISC, JANUS etc.,XML basically defines content/data as tags and attributes and data elements can be defined in namespaces. The intention of this post is not to teach you xml but to give some basics of why you should be aware of xml in relation to Clinical Research.Recently Microsoft has been in conflict with many open source groups in relation to their OOXML standard, There has been complaints and concerns that this standard has been rigged