Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

application/xml

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .XML files (eXtensible Markup Language).

File Extension

.xml

Content-Type Header

application/xml

Format Category

Code & Web

Standard Specification

RFC 7303 / W3C XML

Description & Usage

Software and hardware-independent text markup format for structured data.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .xml
types {
    application/xml    xml;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

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Preguntas frecuentes

Respuestas claras a las preguntas más habituales.

The official MIME content type for .xml files is "application/xml". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .xml data.