Data Handling

In today’s lesson we’ve to explain in our own words what XML and JSON file is,what it looks like and what it can be used for.

XML File.

XML is a file extension for an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file format used to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets and elsewhere using standard ASCII text. … Both XML and HTML contain markup symbols to describe the contents of a page or file.

Json File.

A JSON file is a file that stores simple data structures and objects in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format, which is a standard data interchange format. It is primarily used for transmitting data between a web application and a server. … JSON is commonly used in Ajax Web application programming.