XML (Extensible Markup Language)
A data format used by older APIs and enterprise systems (SAP, Salesforce SOAP API). Less common than JSON but still encountered when integrating with legacy ERP, banking, or government systems. PURIST includes XML parsing in workflows that touch legacy infrastructure.
Expert insight
XML integrations, still common with older enterprise and government systems, require careful namespace and schema handling that JSON doesn't need, a workflow built by someone used to JSON APIs commonly misses XML namespace prefixes when trying to extract a value, causing a parsing step to silently return nothing instead of an error.
In a real workflow
A logistics partner sends shipment updates as XML, which the workflow converts to JSON.
Common mistakes
- Ignoring namespaces in XML.
- Assuming element order.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
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