difference between HTML and XML

• HTML is an abbreviation for Hyper Text Markup Language while XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language.The differences are as follows:-
• HTML was designed to display data with focus on how data looks while XML was designed to be a software and hardware independent tool used to transport and store data, with focus on what data is.
• HTML is a Markup language itself while XML provides a framework for defining markup languages.
• HTML is a presentation language while XML is neither a programming language nor a presentation language.
• HTML is case insensitive while XML is case sensitive.
• HTML is used for designing a web-page to be rendered on the client side while XML is used basically to transport data between the application and the database.
• HTML has it own predefined tags while what makes XML flexible is that custom tags can be defined and the tags are invented by the author of the XML document.
• HTML is not strict if the user does not use the closing tags but XML makes it mandatory for the user the close each tag that has been used.
• HTML does not preserve white space while XML does.