XML

stands for

Extensible Markup Language

application/xml

is the official Internet media type for XML.

.xml

is the XML filename extension.

XML is extensible

− XML allows us to create our own self-descriptive tags.

XML carries the data, does not present it

− XML allows us to store the data irrespective of how it will be presented.

XML is a public standard

- XML was developed by an organization called the World Wide Web Consortium. Any type of data can be expressed as an

XML document

XML can be used to

exchange

the information between companies and systems