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Its primary purpose is to help information systems share structured data, particularly via the Internet, and it is used both to encode documents and to serialize data.  
 
Its primary purpose is to help information systems share structured data, particularly via the Internet, and it is used both to encode documents and to serialize data.  
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==See Also==
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* [[Custom Field Type: Special - XML Data]]
  
 
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Revision as of 19:04, 20 July 2011

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages.

It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements.

Its primary purpose is to help information systems share structured data, particularly via the Internet, and it is used both to encode documents and to serialize data.

See Also