XML Tag Structuring: 28% Fewer Parsing Errors Than Markdown
Wraps instructions, data, rules, and schemas in XML tags when feeding them to an AI — tested to produce roughly 28% fewer errors on structured-extraction tasks than using Markdown headers.
<task>{{task}}</task> <input>{{data}}</input> <rules>{{rules}}</rules> <schema>{{schema}}</schema>
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When you need an AI to extract structured data from a block of text, sectioning it with XML tags is much more reliable than Markdown headers (Claude especially responds well to this). Good for extracting tables, JSON, or specific fields.
一段嚴格符合你給的 schema 的 JSON、不夾雜任何多餘文字。
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