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XML

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Definition

eXtensible Markup Language - a markup language for storing and transporting structured data. Like HTML but designed for data instead of web pages.

Real-World Example

Bank systems often exchange transaction data using XML format because it's both human-readable and machine-readable.

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Cloud Provider Equivalencies

XML is an open data format/markup language, not a cloud provider service. All major clouds support storing, validating, transforming, and exchanging XML using their compute, integration, and storage services (for example, APIs, message queues, ETL, and object storage).

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