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XML
Filename extension
Internet media type
.xml
application/xml
text/xml[1]
Uniform Type
Identifier (UTI)
public.xml
UTI conformation
public.text
Developed by
Type of format
Markup language
Extended from
SGML
Extended to
Standard
RSS
Atom
KML
Open format?
Yes
Status
Published
Year started
Editors
Tim Bray
Jean Paoli
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
Eve Maler
Franois Yergeau
John Cowan
Data serialization
XML
XML 1.0
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for
encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is
defined by the W3C's XML 1.0 Specification[2] and by several other related specifications, [3]
all of which are free open standards.[4]
The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality and usability across the Internet.[5]
It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages.
Although the design of XML focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation
of arbitrary data structures[6] such as those used in web services.
Several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages, while many
application programming interfaces (APIs) have been developed to aid the processing of
XML data.