🆚 Text vs. XML
XML is slightly more popular than Text.- XML is more popular in Japan, Germany, and Italy.
- Text is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Standard
Standard
About
The plain text document format.
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
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
XML is 1.1 times more popular than Text.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
XML is more popular in Japan, Germany, and Italy, while Text is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
Japan
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Italy
Czechia
France
Spain
Russia
Awards
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Argentina in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Korea in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Czechia in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
XML is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and online shopping, while Text is more commonly used on Internet services, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Travel
Content Server
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.