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What is XML? Extensible Markup Language Guide

XML (Extensible Markup Language) format, history, use cases and best practices. The powerful standard for data transport and storage.

10/17/2024
10 min read
XML
Markup Language
Data Format
SOAP

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a structured data format that is both human and machine-readable, standardized by W3C in 1998. Unlike HTML, it allows user-defined tags and is focused on data transport. XML was designed as a simplified version of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).