XML

XML, like JSON, is an absolutely ubiquitous format for data transfer over the internet. In addition to being used on the web, XML is also a popular data format for application configuration files and the list. In fact, newer Microsoft Office documents (with the extensions .docx or .xlsx) are stored as XML files.

Here's what our simple Beatles dataset may look like in XML:

example_xml1 <- ' 
<the_beatles> 
  <formed>1960</formed> 
  <members> 
    <member> 
      <first_name>George</first_name> 
      <last_name>Harrison</last_name> 
    </member> 
    <member> 
      <first_name>Ringo</first_name> 
      <last_name>Starr</last_name> 
    </member> 
    <member> 
      <first_name>Paul</first_name> 
      <last_name>McCartney</last_name...