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verb (used with object), parsed, parsing. 1. to analyze (a sentence) in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of speech, syntactic relations, etc. 2. to describe (a word in a sentence) grammatically, identifying the part of speech, inflectional form, syntactic function, etc.
In short, parsing XML means that a program generates an internal representation of the serialized XML. As an example, let's use HTML. HTML parsing is essentially the same as XML parsing (except the syntax is slightly different, but that doesn't matter right now). As you probably know, you can open XML and HTML documents in any text editor and view the contents. You'll see all the elements serialized using opening and closing tags. In HTML, a paragraph is opened using <p> and closed using </p>. Everything in between those two tags is the contents of the paragraph.