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The nerdy Esperanto of data: tags that explain themselves, so machines actually understand what they're reading.
means A text-based format that wraps data in labeled tags to describe its meaning, letting computers parse and share information without ambiguity.
from Invented in 1996 by Jon Bosak and the W3C as a stricter, more portable cousin of SGML—designed to be both human-readable and machine-parseable, thriving in the early web when formats fragmented wildly.
Self-documentingTags literally name what they contain: <price>19.99</price> means no guessing.
Platform agnosticWorks identically on Windows, Mac, Linux, or your toaster's OS.
Nearly obsolete nowJSON stole its lunch for APIs; XML lives mainly in legacy systems and configs.
Nesting obsessedCan embed tags inside tags infinitely, for complex hierarchical data structures.