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XML
Extensible Markup Language. XML is a relatively simple, very flexible standard for creating markup languages that describe the structure of data, a metalanguage for the specification of markup languages. There are thousands of derivatives, generically referred to as XML languages. XML and its derivatives have as particular hallmarks their human legibility, separation of presentation and data, easy transformability to other XML languages, and ease of repurposing and reformatting data extracted using a parser. See generally, W3C XML activities web site.See also: XML transformation language