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XML/SOAP
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a data formatting language, similar in some respects to HTML. 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. Business clients, partners, service providers increasingly require or provide data in XML format.
SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is an XML-based protocol for applications to communicate over the internet, via HTTP, the protocol of world wide web data transmission.
Below is an example of a simple XML document, as displayed by your browser:
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