An xml file extension is commonly used for files written in Extensible Markup Language. An xml file is used in various areas of computer industry and many program languages are just derivatives of XML. These xml files can be opened and edited in any text editor or IDE.

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What is xml file? How to open xml files?

File extension xml is commonly used for files written in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.

XML is a human-readable, machine-understandable, general syntax for describing hierarchical data, applicable to a wide range of applications (databases, e-commerce, Java, web development, searching, etc.).

XML custom tags enable the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.

XML is a subset of SGML and is a metalanaguage providing the rules and conventions to be used to create other languages following these rules. These other languages are called XML-applications.

There are thousands of XML-applications such as MathML (Mathematics Markup Language), CML (Chemical Markup Language), CDF, OSD, HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language), RDF (Resource Description Framework), MML (Music Markup Language)

XML documents can be created with any text-editor just like HTML documents or dynamically by program. XML, however, is much stricter with its rules. XML documents need to be well-formed (e.g. element names, i.e. tags, are case sensitive and must be ended, unlike HTML) and for data vailidity they also need to be valid (i.e. be associated with a DTD which contains definitions of and relationships between elements).

XML MIME types:

MIME types:
text/xml
application/xml

Updated: November 13, 2023

The default software associated to open xml file:

Stylus Studio icon

Progress Software Corporation logoStylus Studio  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Progress Software Corporation

Stylus Studio XML Enterprise Suite Release 2 is an advanced XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) consisting of hundreds of powerful XML tools in one all-inclusive suite, and high-performance Java & .NET components for deploying data integration applications.

Sublime Text icon

Sublime Text  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Sublime HQ Pty Ltd

Sublime Text is advanced text editor used to write source codes in various programming languages. It is a great tool for programmers and offers great feature and performance. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

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Help how to open:

Use any specialized XML editor software, IDE or any text editor to edit and view contents of xml file format.

How to convert:

XMLs are used for many purposes, and it is a common format for exports and interchange data so many types of conversions are possible.

Find conversions from xml file:

xml to csv

xml to m3u

xml to m3u8

xml to midi

xml to srt

xml to vcard

xml to vcf

Find converter to xml file type:

db to xml

ics to xml

m3u to xml

m3u8 to xml

sme to xml

vcf to xml

vmsg to xml

File identification strings:

HEX code: FF FE 3C 00 3F 00 78 00 6D 00 6C 00 20 00 76 00 65
ASCII code: ? x m l v e r s i o n =

Related links:

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

List of software applications associated to the .xml file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open xml file, edit xml file, convert xml file, view xml file, play xml file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting xml files.

Software that open xml file - XML document

Programs supporting the exension xml on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open xml file action.

Microsoft Windows:

Main software associated with xml file by default:
Stylus Studio small icon Stylus Studio
Sublime Text small icon Sublime Text
Other suggested software:
Microsoft Edge small icon Microsoft Edge
ConTEXT
NotePad++ text editor small icon NotePad++ text editor
XML:Wrench
CoffeeCup HTML Editor small icon CoffeeCup HTML Editor
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