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Difference between XML and XMI?

Can some one shed some light on the difference between XML and XMI? Can XMI be used in place of XML?

Solution

  • The XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) is an Object Management Group (OMG) standard for exchanging metadata information via Extensible Markup Language (XML).

    XMI integrates four industry standards:

    XML - eXtensible Markup Language, a W3C standard. 
UML - Unified Modeling Language, an OMG modeling standard. 
MOF - Meta Object Facility, an OMG language for specifying metamodels. 
MOF Mapping to XMI

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Metadata_Interchange

    So XMI is a specific application of XML.