-- Acronyms -- XML eXtensible Markup Language Rules for a tree structure of information with embedded markup. It looks something like this: truck car XPath XML Path Language A string syntax for building addresses to the nodes of an XML tree. XSL eXtensible Stylsheet Language Specification of the semantics of an XML document. XSLT eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations Rules for transforming one vocubulary into another. SAX Simple API for XML An event-based model for parsing XML. You write handlers that get called at the start of a tag, end of a tag, and so on. Particularly useful when you don't want to process the entire XML tree. DOM Document Object Model Maps an XML document into an internal tree structure