Advantages of XML Over Flat files

If a documented is well structured then processing it is a easy task. So XML makes the processing of your file easy.

We can provide schema for an XML file, With the schema definition for the Xml file, traversing through the xml document is easy and efficient.

Languages like Java provides classes like XmlReader to process XML documents, which makes Programmer task easy.

XML validators available which will validate your XML files.

"Raw" text files are easier to write but hard to parse.

With XML, you don't need to build your own parser, many languages providing built in parsers.

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