🆚 XFN vs. XML

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XFN
XML

Type

Standard
Standard

About

XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.

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

Website

gmpg.org/xfn/ #2,471,084
w3.org/XML/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #10
Standards › Rank #28

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

XFN is 59 times more popular than XML.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

XFN is more popular than XML in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Japan
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

XFN is more popular than XML in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#140
#304
#390
#420
#556
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Name
Rank
#940
#1,288
#1,453
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