🆚 Markdown vs. XML
- 📈 Markdown is as popular as XML.
- 🌎 Markdown is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌍 XML is more popular in Japan, Germany, and Spain.
Markdown
XMLType
About
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.
It defines elements such as headings, lists, links, images, code blocks, and emphasis through a simple set of symbols like "#*`[]()", and supports extensions for tables, footnotes, and task lists.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.
It uses a hierarchical tree structure with custom-defined tags, supports schemas such as DTD and XML Schema for validation, enables namespaces to avoid naming conflicts, and is widely used in formats and protocols such as 
RSS, SOAP, and configuration files.
Headquarters
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 19th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Taiwan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
HTML
YAML
GraphQL
Sass
JSON
RSD🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.