Source format
XML
Extensible Markup Language
Data organised with tags similar to HTML. It underpins many exchanges between business systems, RSS feeds and e-invoicing formats.
- Best for
- Exchanging data between programs, imports into business software.
- Limits
- Verbose: for the same data it’s heavier than JSON and CSV.
- Type
- structured data
- Human-readable
- yes, it’s text
- Used by
- business software, e-invoices, feeds
- Extensions
- .xml
- Since
- 1998