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Chapter 5. First-class functions in acti... > Representing documents with XML
5.2. Representing documents with XML
XML is a text-based format that uses tags to structure data. XML is certainly no silver bullet when it comes to persisting data; it’s generally verbose and, for complex data structures, inefficient. On the other hand, XML is a text-based format. If something goes wrong with your program, it’s easier to see what’s going wrong than with a binary format.
An XML document will look something like the following segment:
