What is XML?
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language, capable of describing many different kinds of data. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different systems.
XML can be read and interpreted directly by many applications, including Excel and various web-scripting languages. This allows you to easily save the resources on this site and import into Excel or other applications. Other web-servers can also read the data resources on this website directly to use in different websites.
The resources on this site are available in XML format by clicking on the orange "XML" logo (shown above), which appears on resource pages at the right-hand side of the page. Depending on which browser version you are using, you will then either see an unformatted list of resources (which you can save to your computer), or you will be asked to save the XML file. Once you have saved the XML file you can open this directly into Excel and other applications.
You can also call the XML pages directly (these can be called from other web-servers):
- Resource lists: http://www.data4nr.net/xml/theme-name/rss.xml
- For example http://www.data4nr.net/xml/population/rss.xml
- Specific resource: http://www.data4nr.net/xml/resource-id/rss.xml
- For example http://www.data4nr.net/xml/1/rss.xml
- Searching: http://www.data4nr.net/xml/theme-name/search-term/rss.xml
- For example http://www.data4nr.net/xml/all/ethnic/rss.xml
See the online Wiki XML pages for more information.
