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What is a “.xml” file??

I have the office orphan computer and I got an email from a co-worker with "*.XML" files that are supposed to be spreadsheets, but my computer can’t open it. any help here?

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  1. (^-^)-? wrote:

    That would be an Excel document. You need microsoft excel or another program that can open that.

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink
  2. floobersthegreat wrote:

    XML files are a common file format for storing and displaying data. You can view them in a internet browser with the option of expanding/collapsing nodes in the tree structure and some applications will have features to import them as their own format as well. Extensible Markup Language is what XML stands for. If .NET applications, you can save and/or read datasets to these as well.

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink
  3. grayure wrote:

    XML is a format which describes the structure of a document so that it can be used in a database or some other special-purpose document. For instance, Word documents are now in XML. If you look at them in a text editor like emacs or Notepad (not a good choice that last one), you will probably be able to read them or at least make sense of them. They look rather like HTML, the language used to describe webpages to the likes of Internet Explorer.

    It’s almost certain that your computer can open them. If you’re using Windows, Notepad will either open them or will suggest you use Wordpad to do so, and there are many other programs that will. The problem will be extracting useful data from them. Something like Python or Perl would be able to do that, but you might not be up to it. Alternatively, it may be that Excel or Gnumeric would be able to import it.

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink
  4. banan wrote:

    A widely used system for defining data formats. XML provides a very rich system to define complex documents and data structures such as invoices, molecular data, news feeds, glossaries, inventory descriptions, real estate properties, etc.
    As long as a programmer has the XML definition for a collection of data (often called a "schema") then they can create a program to reliably process any data formatted according to those rules.

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink
  5. Dr.John L wrote:

    These files create custom extension mark up language files

    Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 6:26 am | Permalink
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