eXtensible Markup Language: a simplified version of SGML that can be used, especially on the World Wide Web, to create a tagging scheme that allows elements of a document to be marked according to their content rather than their format.
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1995-2000
British Dictionary definitions for extensible markup language
XML
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extensible markup language: a computer language used in text formatting
extensible markup language in Science
XML
(ěks'ěm-ěl') Short for extensible markup language. A version of SGML that allows one to design a customized markup language, used to allow for the easy interchange of documents and data on the World Wide Web or between software components.
extensible markup language in Technology
language, text (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. (https://w3.org/XML/). [Relationship to the XSL forthcoming subset of DSSSL?] (1997-11-20)
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