Xml
XML is a text-based markup language for encoding structured documents and data using elements, attributes, and nested relationships.
Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
XML is a markup-based data interchange format for representing structured information with nested elements and attributes.
- How it is used
- Identifies the format used for SOAP messages and WSDL service descriptions.
- How deep it goes
- Defines XML through its SOAP and WSDL uses, without showing XML syntax or parsing.
- Examples
- Uses SOAP requests, responses, and WSDL files as concrete XML artifacts.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand XML’s role in SOAP and why complex XML messages may be a trade-off.
The Quick Python Book, Fourth Edition
XML is a text-based markup and data-interchange format that represents structured information using nested elements and attributes.
- How it is used
- Uses XML to receive structured data from APIs and other internet services.
- How deep it goes
- Explains nesting, attributes, metadata, and practical parsing, but stops short of detailed XML parser internals.
- Examples
- Demonstrates a World Bank Chile population response, requests retrieval, and xmltodict conversion into nested mappings.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via requests and xmltodict to retrieve XML API data and extract values from nested records.
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Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security
XML is a text-based markup language and data serialization format that represents structured information with nested elements and attributes.
- How it is used
- Uses structured text to exchange application data and represent Cisco IOS command output for processing.
- How deep it goes
- Defines XML syntax, whitespace behavior, relative readability, REST API support, and one Cisco IOS display command.
- Examples
- Shows show ip interface brief output in standard tabular form and XML with nested interface entries.
- What you can do after
- Operate Cisco IOS show commands with the | format filter and recognize their structured XML output.
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PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
XML is a text-based markup language and document format for representing structured data with elements, attributes, and declarations.
- How it is used
- Evaluates PostgreSQL XML storage as an application design choice, emphasizing when document copying is safer than querying or manipulation.
- How deep it goes
- Details format, parsing, memory, DTD, and schema limitations, but stops short of describing XML query syntax or PostgreSQL internals.
- Examples
- Compares XML and JSON values with PostgreSQL casts and pg_column_size using a small color property document.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate XML storage decisions and choose JSON(B) for queryable documents or NUMERIC for exact numeric values.
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Software Testing with Generative AI
XML is a markup language and data-interchange standard for representing structured information with nested elements and attributes.
- How it is used
- Uses XML to generate structured test datasets and switch an existing data specification between output formats.
- How deep it goes
- Demonstrates root and field conventions plus validation concerns, but stops short of defining XML syntax or processing internals.
- Examples
- Uses room records with nested features, prices, accessibility values, bed counts, and placeholder image URLs.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via prompt engineering to request XML datasets, convert structured objects between formats, and verify generated values against requirements.
Related concepts
- SOAPused by · SOAP is a protocol for exchanging structured messages between distributed applications, commonly using XML-based envelopes over network transport protocols.
- JSONalternative to · JSON is a standardized, language-independent text format for representing structured data using objects, arrays, strings, numbers, Boolean values, and null.
- serializationused by · Serialization is the encoding of structured data or in-memory values into a representation suitable for storage or transmission and later reconstruction.
- Export-Clixmlproduced by · Export-Clixml is a PowerShell cmdlet that serializes objects as CLIXML and writes the representation to a file.
- data formatkind of · A data format is a defined representation, structure, and encoding scheme for storing, transmitting, exchanging, or interpreting data.
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