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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all free open standards. The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services.
TechnologyExtensible mark–up language is an official recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium as a successor of HTML (Hyper Text Mark–up language). It can be used to convey documents layout and contents from one computer application to another. XML is a subset of SGML.
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