A file that contains text with interspersed descriptions, called "tags." All XML files are XML documents and vice versa. The XML document is often organized in a hierarchy with an "open" tag at the ...

Welcome back to my series on the fundamentals of XML for programmers. The first article in this series introduced you to the basic structure of an XML document and the syntax involved in defining that ...

ITworld.com – XML has been around now, in its final fully fledged form, for more years than I care to remember. Having played a small part in its original creation, thinking back that far makes me ...

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...

When a standard is deployed as openly as XML, businesses are bound to have security concerns. This article introduces and explains five proposed XML standards that deal with security issues. Besides ...

XML refers to Extensible Markup Language, which is a language similar to HTML. If you have an XML document, you may be wondering how to open it. Although you can open an XML file in Notepad, the ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...

Sometimes it seems you spend more time manipulating XML files than you do writing Java code, so it makes sense to have one or two XML wranglers in your toolbox. In this article, Laurent Bovet gets you ...