XML - mostafa-karimi/Web-Scraping GitHub Wiki

Source: Automated Data Collection with R

• XML: eXtensible Markup Language

• XML looks familiar to someone with basic knowledge about HTML, as it shares the same features of a markup language.

• While HTML is used to shape the display of information, the main purpose of XML is to store data.

• XML is data wrapped in user-defined tags.

• JSON: JavaScript Object Notation

• JSON is an increasingly popular alternative to XML for data exchange purposes that comes with some preferable features.