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 ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

XML is short for Extended Markup Language and is a subset of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language. XML is an HTML-like formatting language. Whereas most HTML-related formats developed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sure, .NET's got great support for XML, but what's a VB6 programmer to do? Learn to work with MSXML2's DOM parser, that's what. The Document Object Model (DOM) is the oldest, and arguably the easiest, ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

In previous posts, I provided some opposing viewpoints on Binary XML, which the W3C proposes as a way to compress verbose text XML messages. Some say that the size of text XML messages may slow down ...