Q&A for How to View XML Files

You need a program that "parses" the data into the database. MySQL (MariaDB) has a method called ''LOAD XML''.

The same way it interprets the HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. languages. Web browsers are designed to translate the plain text information into graphics.

You open it the same way you would open HTML files. The browser interprets it without problems.

XML is designed to be readable by human and machines. The 'final format' you're referring to is the XML- file itself, because the written code is what you also read. You can, of course, build a parser which displays the data in a graphical, more organized way, but this is not the purpose of XML.