XML (Extensible Markup Language)
XML e uma linguagem de marcacao que define regras para codificar documentos num formato legivel tanto por humanos como por maquinas. E amplamente utilizado para troca de dados, ficheiros de configuracao, servicos web e formatos de documentos.
Tipo MIME
application/xml
Tipo
Texto
Compressão
Sem perdas
Vantagens
- + Self-describing with user-defined tags and schemas
- + Mature ecosystem: XPath, XSLT, XSD, SAX/DOM parsers
- + Standard for RSS/Atom feeds, SVG, XHTML, and SOAP
- + Supports namespaces for mixing vocabularies
Desvantagens
- − Verbose syntax compared to JSON or YAML
- − Parsing is slower and more memory-intensive than JSON
- − Largely replaced by JSON for web APIs
Quando usar .XML
Use XML para formatos de documentos (DOCX, SVG, XHTML), servicos web SOAP, feeds RSS/Atom e dados com requisitos de validacao de esquema.
Detalhes técnicos
O XML utiliza tags aninhadas com atributos, namespaces e validacao de esquemas (DTD, XSD ou RelaxNG). E totalmente Unicode, suporta CDATA para conteudo nao analisado e pode ser transformado com XSLT.
Histórico
O XML foi desenvolvido pelo W3C e publicado como recomendacao em 1998. Derivou do SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) com o objetivo de simplificar a troca de dados na web.
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