How do I execute or run an XML file?
Answer:
You can't and you don't. XML itself is not a programming language, so XML files don't
‘run’ or ‘execute’. XML is a markup specification language and XML files are just data:
they sit there until you run a program which displays them (like a browser) or does some
work with them (like a converter which writes the data in another format, or a database
which reads the data), or modifies them (like an editor).
If you want to view or display an XML file, open it with an XML editor or an question
B.3, XML browser.
The water is muddied by XSL (both XSLT and XSL:FO) which use XML syntax to
implement a declarative programming language. In these cases it is arguable that you can
‘execute’ XML code, by running a processing application like Saxon, which compiles the
directives specified in XSLT files into Java bytecode to process XML.
‘run’ or ‘execute’. XML is a markup specification language and XML files are just data:
they sit there until you run a program which displays them (like a browser) or does some
work with them (like a converter which writes the data in another format, or a database
which reads the data), or modifies them (like an editor).
If you want to view or display an XML file, open it with an XML editor or an question
B.3, XML browser.
The water is muddied by XSL (both XSLT and XSL:FO) which use XML syntax to
implement a declarative programming language. In these cases it is arguable that you can
‘execute’ XML code, by running a processing application like Saxon, which compiles the
directives specified in XSLT files into Java bytecode to process XML.
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