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

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

Tim is one of the editors of the XML spec, and he also managed the software development team of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project at the University of Waterloo.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2014

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