Re: [xml-dev] XML-formatted data or XML-encoded data?

On 1/21/2015 5:02 AM, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Use whatever words wont confuse the audience. For the 1980s/1990s
> sgml crowd "format" and "encoding" had other specific meanings, so
> were avoided. The useful term that filled the gap was "notation."

I usually mean "if you look at the data, you will see XML".  I usually 
say either "in XML" or, since I didn't grow up with SGML terminology, 
"in XML format".

TomP