Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Data exchange language
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there is no formal definition of a "data exchange language". Any file format (data format) can be used for data exchange (and storage). XML are occassionally coined as "data exchange languages", but this is only informal. Formally, they are structured, extensible markup languages with generic parsers available, and this wide availability of compatible parsers makes them suitable for data exchange. There obviously are benefits for using formal languages in data exchange, but this by no means warrants an article. The contents maybe could/should be merged somewhere and the article replaced with a redirect to a more appropriate place. Chire (talk) 08:30, 20 September 2011 (UTC)