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MXML is a xml format created in 2004.

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MXML is an XML-based user interface markup language first introduced by Macromedia in March 2004. Application developers use MXML in combination with ActionScript to develop rich Internet applications, with products such as Apache Flex. Adobe Systems, which acquired Macromedia in December 2005, gives no official meaning for the acronym MXML. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from hello-world:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"> <mx:Label text="Hello World"/> </mx:Application>
Example from Wikipedia:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" backgroundGradientColors="[#000011, #333333]"> <mx:Label text="Hello World!" verticalCenter="0" horizontalCenter="0" fontSize="48" letterSpacing="1"> <mx:filters> <mx:GlowFilter color="#ffffdd"/> </mx:filters> </mx:Label> </mx:Application>

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Strings ✓ "
"Hello world"

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