I have an xml file to be downloaded. As you all know when i give the below link
<a href="some.xml">Downlad XML</a>
The XML will open in a new tab displaying it. However I would like to know if there is a way, this can downloaded like other files such as a .zip file
Similar to Mohd's solution above, I was able to use the download attribute as specified by W3 here: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_download.asp. A cool trick about going this route is that you can specify what you want the downloaded filename to be, if it is different from the filename on the server.
<a href="http://link/to/the/file.xml" download="downloadedfilename.xml">XML Download Text</a>
Just add the 'download' attribute in the anchor tag
<a href="some.xml" download >Downlad XML</a>