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Real-world examples of XML

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Real-world examples of XML

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- [Instructor] So now that we've seen what XML is, and what it's used for, and we understand some of its advantages and drawbacks, let's take a look at some real world uses of XML. So first, I've got the BBC website open here, and you can see the URL I'm visiting there on your screen. And as I mentioned earlier in the course, RSS is a data format that is typically found in publishing. It's commonly used for blogs or other syndicated content that is updated periodically. And you can see if I scroll down here on the BBC site, there's a whole bunch of RSS feeds. It's all these links right here. These are all XML documents that list various different news related items. So let's go ahead and click on one of these. I'm going to click on World. And when I click on that, you see I get a screen full of XML code. And let me just zoom this up a little bit so we can see it a little bit better. Right here at the top of the page is the root tag. You can see it's called RSS. And then there's a…

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