XML

American  

abbreviation

Computers.

1. eXtensible Markup Language: a simplified version of SGML that can be used, especially on the World Wide Web, to create a tagging scheme that allows elements of a document to be marked according to their content rather than their format.

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XML British  

abbreviation

1. extensible markup language: a computer language used in text formatting

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XML Scientific  

/ ĕks′ĕm-ĕl′ /

1. Short for extensible markup language. A version of SGML that allows one to design a customized markup language, used to allow for the easy interchange of documents and data on the World Wide Web or between software components.

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Etymology

Origin of XML

1995–2000

Example Sentences

The app creates a local backup, in XML format, of the messages and call logs on your phone when you run it.

From Fox News • Sep. 4, 2021

Other favorites: Xanga, XML Yahoo Search engines built the web, and Yahoo was one of the first, biggest, and longest to survive.

From The Verge • Mar. 12, 2019

At the top of Inglis’s wish list is an automated tool to translate scientific papers posted to bioRxiv, often as word-processor files or PDF documents, into more web-friendly formats, such as XML.

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2017

For a given issue, the pipeline takes in three inputs: high-resolution scans of pages from microfilm, XML files of article metadata, and INI files describing the geometric boundaries of every article on every page.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 1458

Microsoft, IBM, and a host of other companies contributed to the development of XML and SOAP, and both were subsequently ratified and popularized as Internet standards.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman