| HTML is an abbreviation for HyperText Markup Language. | XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. |
| HTML was designed to display data with focus on how data looks. | 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. | XML provides a framework for defining markup languages. |
| HTML is a presentation language. | XML is neither a programming language nor a presentation language. |
| HTML is case insensitive. | XML is case sensitive. |
| HTML is used for designing a web-page to be rendered on the client side. | XML is used basically to transport data between the application and the database. |
| HTML has it's 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. | XML makes it mandatory for the user the close each tag that has been used. |
| HTML does not preserve white space. | XML preserves white space. |
| HTML is about displaying data,hence static. | XML is about carrying information,hence dynamic. |
