Definition for XML

XML: XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a text based format for describing data in a universally interchangeable way. While its primary purpose is for data interchange between disparate computer systems, it also has the added benefit of being mostly human readable also. A proper implementation of XML is supposed to self define the data it is attempting to encapsulate and can be used to describe any kind of data structure, hence the label of extensible.

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