Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 - Manual (Page 259)

Glossary
X
XML The eXtensible Markup Language, a metastandard for all kinds of textual infor-
mation. XML only specifies how data in the document is organized generally and
does not prescribe how to semantically organize content.
XPCOM Mozilla Cross Platform Component Object Model, a programming infrastruc-
ture developed by the Mozilla browser project which is similar to Microsoft COM
and allows applications to provide a modular programming interface. VirtualBox
makes use of XPCOM on Linux both internally and externally to provide a com-
prehensive API to third-party developers.
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