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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing 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 of 1998 and several other related specifications—all of them free…

Characters, History, Applications & Standards

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Characters and escaping

Control charactersC1BMPU+0000Bytes
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Applications

RSSAtomOffice Open XMLOpenDocumentCOLLADA
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Schemas and validation

Document type definitionStandard public entity setsFeaturesNamespacesMacros
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Programming interfaces

XML InfosetAPIsStAXDOMXML data binding
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Abbreviation
XML
Base standards
SGML
Domain
Serialization
Editors
Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, John W. Cowan
First published
February 10, 1998; 28 years ago (1998-02-10)
Latest version
1.1 (2nd ed.) September 29, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-29)

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Applications

Key terminology

Characters and escaping

Syntactical correctness and error-handling

Schemas and validation

Related specifications

Programming interfaces

History

Versions

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XML

Nodes200
Edges199
Triples348
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01
Components1

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XML

Top relations

related to Related specifications · 28
XML → Although XML Namespaces, DSDL, Extensible Stylesheet Language, HTML, ISO/IEC, It, Part, PDFs, Schema Association, The, URI, XML Base, XML Encryption, XML Information Set, XML Infoset, XML Namespaces, XML Path Language, XML Query, XML Schema, XML Signature
related to Pull parsing · 25
XML → API, Code, DOM, Edit, ElementTree, Examples, Java, NET Framework, NodeIteratorandTreeWalker, PHP, Pull, Pull-parsing, Python, Red, SAX, Smalltalk, SmartXML, StAX, System, The
has application · 22
XML → AJAX, Asynchronous JavaScript, Atom, COLLADA, Darwin Information Typing Architecture, FpML, Health Level, Hundreds, In, Internet, It, Many, MISMO, National Information Exchange Model, Office Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenTravel Alliance, RSS, SOAP, SVG
related to XML as data type · 21
XML → Adobe Actionscript, E4X, ECMAScript/JavaScript, Facebook, Java VM, JavaScript, JSX, Linux-like, Microsoft, Microsoft's LINQ, Mozilla, NET, PHP, Scala, Similar, The, The ECMAScript, The Resource Description Framework, XHP, XMLList
related to Sources · 20
XML → Asian Documents, DTDs, ERCS, Extended Reference Concrete Syntax, From SGML, HTML, IS, ISO, ISO-related China/Japan/Korea Document Processing, Other, SGML, SPREAD, Standardization Project Regarding East, TEI, Text Encoding Initiative, The ERCS, The SGML, To, Unicode, WebSGML Adaptations
related to External links · 16
XML → Archived, Extended Reference Concrete Syntax, FAQ, Future, Java, Jon BosakThe Official, Markup Validation ServiceThe XML, Official, Peter Flynn, Rick JelliffeXML, SpecificationRetrospective, W3C, W3C's XML SIG, Wayback Machine, Web, World Wide Web Consortium
related to RELAX NG · 13
XML → DSDL, ISO/IEC, It, James Clark's, OASIS, Part, Regular Language, Regular-grammar-based, RELAX NG, Trang, XML Next Generation, XML Schema, XML Schema Datatypes
related to Data binding · 12
XML → By, DOM, Example, IDEs, It, Java Architecture, JAXB, NET Framework, The, This, XML Binding, XML Serialization
related to history · 12
XML → Bosak, By, Dan Connolly, Internet, ISO, Jon Bosak, SGML, Sun Microsystems, The, W3C's, Web, World Wide Web
related to Valid characters · 11
XML → BMP, C0, Carriage Return, D7FF, E000, FFFD, FFFE, FFFF, Horizontal Tab, Line Feed, Unicode

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Important terminology

document data schema unicode characters language use used languages sgml syntax character specification documents information also programming standard code defines

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
XMLAbbreviationXML1.00infobox
XMLBase standardsSGML1.00infobox
XMLDomainSerialization1.00infobox
XMLEditorsTim Bray, Jean Paoli, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, John W. Cowan1.00infobox
XMLFirst publishedFebruary 10, 1998; 28 years ago (1998-02-10)1.00infobox
XMLLatest version1.1 (2nd ed.) September 29, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-29)1.00infobox
XMLOrganizationWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C)1.00infobox
XMLRelated standardsW3C XML Schema1.00infobox
XMLStatusPublished, W3C recommendation1.00infobox
XMLYear started1996; 30 years ago (1996)1.00infobox
XMLis adocument type definition0.90text
XMLis aself-describing language0.90text

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