Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all free open standards.
Why the XML API Documents are based on XML?
XML:
| • | is straightforwardly usable over the Internet; |
| • | supports a wide variety of applications; |
| • | it is easy to write programs which process XML documents. |
XML document are:
| • | ordinary text files (UTF8, UTF16, ...); |
| • | properly nested brackets/tags describe a tree structure; |
| • | allows applications from different vendors to exchange data; |
| • | standardized, extremely widely accepted; |
| • | human-legible and reasonably clear; |
That is why XML has been chosen as a basis for XML API.
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