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title: "Can you explain why your project needed XML?"  
description: "Can you explain why your project needed XML?"  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-02  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1696/can-you-explain-why-your-project-needed-xml  
category: "xml"  
tags: ["xml"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can you explain why your project needed XML?

1. If we having huge data to be transferred instead of sending all those data as dataset you can opt xml.

2. XML is simple to parse and it enables a quicker accessing of data.

3. Case sensitiveness is an extra advantage in validating the authentication for the user.

4. XML can be passed irrespective of OS, port and protocol.

## Answers

### Answer by Vijay Shukla

1. If we having huge data to be transferred instead of sending all those data as dataset you can opt xml.

2. XML is simple to parse and it enables a quicker accessing of data.

3. Case sensitiveness is an extra advantage in validating the authentication for the user.

4. XML can be passed irrespective of OS, port and protocol.


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