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xml format was created by the World Wide Web Consortium.įiles with the. Depending on the type of applications you have installed on your computer, it is possible that this extension is associated with an application, although they do not only open with a specific application, as may be the case with Photoshop's. However, when the operating system does not recognize the extension, or displays a blank icon or displays a question mark. When the files are associated with a specific application, the extension of the files is not usually shown because there is no need to know with which application we can open it, since it is shown in the file icon. Thanks to the file extensions, operating systems are able to recognize with which applications can the files be opened. txt file to PDF, either by using Cometdocs web tool or with one of our mobile apps for PDF creation. To convert XML to PDF, first save the XML file as. In this way, you don’t need to worry whether the file could be opened or edited on different devices.

The easiest way to manipulate with XML files is to convert them to PDF. Depending on your phone, you can use different text editor apps or XML viewer apps. So you can save the XML file as Text, to have. Similar to your computer, you can open an XML file on any text editor app. By clicking on the + or – you can expand or hide a specific part of the file. The main difference between viewing XML files on a browser or a text editor is that you have more control of what you are viewing, when you open an XML file in a browser. So, in the same way, click on “Open with” and choose the browser instead of a text editor. How to open XML file in browser?Īnother way to open XML file is with your browser. When click on Open menu and select the XML file from your computer, a small window will show up asking you to choose whether to open the file as an XML table, as a ready-only, or to use the XML source. Although you may not see Microsoft Excel as a suggested program to open this kind of file, you can run Excel program first and then open the XML file from there. The second way to open an XML file is with Excel.

You will see the list of programs that can open XML files, just choose a default text editor you have on your computer. To open an XML file on your computer, right click on the file and then on “Open with”. Given that XML files are encoded in plain text, you can open them in any text editor such as Notepad, TextEdit etc. The purpose of this format is to share the data on the internet and it is actually very similar to HTML format in terms of usage. XML file format stands for an Extensible Markup Language that is used to make common information formats.
