Advantages & Disadvantages of XML

Advantage of XML:

1. It is text-based.
2. It is platform-independent.
3. It manifests as plain text files.
4. Integrating with Existing Data Types
5. Extensibility
6. It supports Unicode (allowing information in any language).
7. It can represent data structures: records, lists and trees.
8. It is based on international standards.
9. The hierarchical structure is suitable for most types of documents.
10. It makes parsing algorithms simple, efficient, and consistent. .

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Disadvantage of XML :

1. Syntax is redundant or large relative to binary representations of similar data
2. The hierarchy schemata can be limiting
3. Syntax is verbose relative to other alternative 'text-based' formats.
4. More difficult, demanding, and precise than HTML
5. It does not support data types, such as 'integer', 'string', 'boolean', and so on.
6. Lack of browser support/end user applications
7. The hierarchical model for representation is limited in comparison to an object oriented model.
8. Namespaces are problematic to use and support