is there generic term hierarchical text data attributes stored in xml file? bmp , png , jfif files contains raster graphics, wav, mp3 , ogg files contains sound, smf contains music performance data etc. xml-like data can serialised in different ways. example, end tags can written closing parenthesis, 1 can use escape characters instead of entities/cdata sections. can matroska, binary encoding of similar structures. xml files called "application/xml text/xml" example of "application" file, file "application" file.
what text resource data? generic , enlightens main purpose.
xml flexible, , low-level, format, it's hard describe "data type" outside of concrete usage.
for instance, in different contexts, describe xml data (these aren't mutually exclusive):
- marked text, per "m" in xml; e.g. xhtml, docbook
- serialized application data; e.g in soap or restful web services
- metadata describing resource; e.g. rss/atom feeds, project manifests , configuration files
- hierarchical object data; e.g. svg
- self-referential data definitions; e.g. xml schema
or define purpose of data - if jpeg file "raster image", svg file "vector image", docbook file "documentation file", etc - xml being detail of format used, "sequence of big-endian 16-bit words" be.
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