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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Data serialization formats, Persistence frameworks, XML, SOAP, S-expression, Abstract Syntax Notation One, YAML, Base64, JSON, Lightweight markup language, Comparison of data serialization formats, Encoding Control Notation, Comma-separated values, Hibernate, Effi, IBM PureQuery, Core Data, MyBatis, SDXF, Java Persistence API, JsonML, Property list, QuickDB ORM, Signum Framework, TimeML, Fast Infoset, Snapshot, IBATIS, TopLink, Carbonado, ODB, NILFS, Protocol Buffers, Action Message Format, Data Interchange Format, Bencode, External Data Representation, Apache Thrift, Canonical S-expressions, Type-length-value, Service Data Objects, Persistent data structure, System Prevalence, WDDX, Marshalling, IDoc, DataNucleus, Netstring, Tab-separated values, ORMLite, Avro, Simple Declarative Language, Pickle, BSON, Castor, Persistor.NET, SOAP Service Description Language, General purpose markup language, Prevayler, Common Data Representation, OGDL, Journal. Excerpt: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, it is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures, for example in web services. Many application programming interfaces (APIs) have been developed that software developers use to process XML data, and several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages. As of 2009, hundreds of XML-based languages have been developed, including RSS, Atom, SOAP, and XHTML. XML-based ...