1.1 (2nd ed.) September 29, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-09-29)
Organization
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Editors
Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, John W. Cowan
Base standards
SGML
Related standards
W3C XML Schema
Domain
Serialization
Website
www.w3.org/xml
XML (file format)
Filename extension
.xml
Internet media type
application/xml, text/xml[1]
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
public.xml
UTI conformation
public.text
Magic number
<?xml
Developed by
World Wide Web Consortium
Type of format
Markup language
Extended from
SGML
Extended to
Numerous languages, including XHTML, RSS, Atom, and KML
Standard
1.0, 5th ed. (November 26, 2008 (2008-11-26))
1.1, 2nd ed. (August 16, 2006 (2006-08-16))
Open format?
Yes
Free format?
Yes
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The World Wide Web Consortium's XML 1.0 Specification[2] of 1998[3] and several other related specifications[4]—all of them free open standards—define XML.[5]
The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet.[6] It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, the language is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures,[7] such as those used in web services.
Several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages, while programmers have developed many application programming interfaces (APIs) to aid the processing of XML data.
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