TextText-based

`text/xml`

XML (Text)

Reference for text/xml, the text-oriented MIME type for XML documents suitable for human-readable XML content.

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Expected extensions: .xml

HTTP Content-Type Header

HTTP Header

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Associated File Extensions

.xml

Quick Facts

MIME Type	text/xml
Category	Text
Type	Text-based (human-readable)
Extensions	.xml

Common Usage

text/xml is used when XML content is primarily human-readable, as opposed to application/xml which is preferred for machine-processed XML. Both are valid for XML documents, but text/xml defaults to us-ascii encoding while application/xml defaults to UTF-8.

Code Examples

HTML

<!-- Link or embed with explicit type -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.xml" type="text/xml">

<!-- Or for script/media elements -->
<script type="text/xml" src="file.xml"></script>

Node.js

// Express.js
app.get('/file', (req, res) => {
  res.type('text/xml');
  res.send(data);
});

// Node.js http
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/xml' });

nginx

# nginx.conf — add to types block or use default
types {
    text/xml  xml;
}

# Or set for a specific location
location /api/ {
    default_type text/xml;
}