It is recommended to be cautious about editing XML files because it is easy to break formatting of the file and make it corrupted and unreadable by applications. XML files are editable, and you can do edits by just opening XML file in text editor like Microsoft Notepad or Mac OS TextEdit. Certain XML files contain configuration information and similar to previous case you can open them in text editor and make changes to the configuration.If the XML file contains some data and no application is available to read it, you can open XML file in any text editor like Microsoft Notepad, Mac OS TextEdit or vim and try to read data inside it.It is still possible to open such XML file in text editor but the data inside it could be not easily readable by the user. If the XML file is application specific, then you need to use the application which was used to create it to read it in order to represent information from the XML file in the readable form.Some XML files could also contain application specific information and are intended to be read only by the application code.ĭepending on the purpose of the XML file it could be opened by different application. But XML files also could contain complex hierarchical information with multiple nesting levels which is better to be interpreted by the computer. XML format is considered to be human readable and simple XML files could be interpreted by most computer users. XML files are formatted according to XML 1.0 specification and support Unicode and other language encodings. XML file is a text-based format used to store structured information.
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