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

As of today’s release, Firefox is isolating five modules: its Graphite font rendering engine, Hunspell spell checker, Ogg multimedia container format, Expat XML parser, and Woff2 web font compression format.

From The Verge • Dec. 6, 2021

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

He wanted to analyse how accurately data can be extracted from scientific papers that are stored in different file formats such as PDF, XML and HTML.

From Nature • Jun. 28, 2016

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