5.9 (Reponse) Formats: XML

• XML (eXtensibleMarkupLanguage, *.xml)
  • Plain text format like JSON
  • Syntax of choice for many newly designed document formats (Word documents!)
  • Looks like HTML but has purpose to store data
  • Markup (mostly tags) & content
  • Syntax example
  • See datacamp exercise and (cf. Munzert et al. 2014, chap. 3)
• Json vs. XML (see here and here)

References

Munzert, Simon, Christian Rubba, Peter Meißner, and Dominic Nyhuis. 2014. Automated Data Collection with r: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining. John Wiley & Sons.