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XML Metadata Interchange
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<p>The XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) is an <a href="/facts/Object_Management_Group/SNpN8n9U">Object Management Group (OMG)</a> standard for exchanging <a href="/facts/Metadata/qt35z79C">metadata</a> information via <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">Extensible Markup Language (XML)</a>. </p><p>It can be used for any metadata whose metamodel can be expressed in <a href="/facts/Meta-Object_Facility/7MDs1aA8">Meta-Object Facility (MOF)</a>, a platform-independent model (PIM). </p><p>The most common use of XMI is as an interchange format for <a href="/facts/Unified_Modeling_Language/3tlNS0tH">UML</a> models, although it can also be used for serialization of models of other languages (metamodels). </p>