An Adobe Commerce developer wants to initialize a JS component via Layout XML in custom...

Option A is the correct way to initialize a JS component via Layout XML in a custom reference block. The x-magento-init tag is used to specify the component name and the options. Option B is incorrect because it uses the data-mage-init attribute, which is only valid for HTML elements. Option C is incorrect because it uses the x-magento-component tag, which is deprecated and should not be used.

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