MD to XML - Convert document online
Conversion Results:
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How to convert MD to XML:
1. Click the "Choose Files" button to select multiple files from your local device, or click the "URL" button to choose an online file.
2. Choose a target document format. The target document format can be PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, ODT, ODS, ODP, XPS, or OXPS. Note that each target format can only be converted from certain source formats. For example, it can convert DOC to DOCX, but it cannot convert DOC to XLSX. When choosing a target format, the available source formats that can be converted to it will be listed.
3. Click the "Convert Now!" button to start batch conversion. The output files will be listed in the "Conversion Results" section. Click the icon to show the file QR code or save the file to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.
MD vs XML:
| Name | MD | XML |
| Full name | Markdown | Extensible Markup Language |
| File extension | .md, .markdown | .xml |
| MIME | text/markdown | application/xml, text/xml |
| Developed by | John Gruber | World Wide Web Consortium |
| Type of format | Markup language | Markup language |
| Introduction | Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. | In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. The design goals of XML emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability across the Internet. |
| Technical details | Markdown has been characterised by an informal specification and a reference implementation for conversion to HTML. Over time, many Markdown implementations have appeared. People developed these mostly driven by the need for additional features on top of the base syntax-such as tables, footnotes, definition lists (technically HTML description lists), and Markdown inside HTML blocks. | XML is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Several schema systems exist to aid in the definition of XML-based languages, while programmers have developed many application programming interfaces (APIs) to aid the processing of XML data. |
| Associated programs | Notepad, TextEdit, WordPad, UltraEdit | Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, Apple iWork |
| Sample file | sample.md | sample.xml |
| Wikipedia | MD on Wikipedia | XML on Wikipedia |