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XML Extensible Markup Language

This is a specifies that says how you to arrange the data so that it's easeir for tools to read the data. The file is still a text file, but it's hareder for humans to read these files.

Here's a good link explaining the basics:

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/python-xml-elementtree

NOTE: If you run the examples in link above, do note that xml file has closing </collection> missing. If you don't add that, you will get an error when parsing the xml file.

XML:

XML looks very much like HTML files. XML creates a tree-like structure that is easy to interpret and supports a hierarchy

XML files are called XML documents