xAPI is not magic: II - xAPI does this and that
Sometimes the wording used to describe xAPI portray it as something that it’s not. This can a source of confusion. Read on to find out why. Sometimes introductory texts about xAPI do say that it is a specification, but later talk about it as if it were a system, a piece of software that does something. xAPI is not a software system. It is a specification for an API. So, it is a document, a set of rules, that tell programmers certain things that they need to implement in their systems.