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 ...

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 ...

A database that stores XML documents. There are two types. The first is the "XML-enabled database," which is a relational or object-oriented database that has been extended to hold XML data. In this ...

One way to store information in a hierarchical way is in a XML file. XML provides a great way to store objects and their attributes in a plain-text file. Although plain text, XML isn't just some ...

According to The Yankee Group, Nemertes Research and Burton Group, companies across a wide range of industries are embracing XML-based Web services, and 75% have deployed at least one XML Web service.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

My last JavaWorld article “Simplify XML Processing with VTD-XML” looked at three important benefits of VTD-XML: performance, memory usage, and ease of use. VTD-XML makes XML applications not only ...

Altova Inc. on Wednesday announced availability of XMLSPY 5 Release 3, an XML development environment that adds support for C# code generation and a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) ...

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 ...

The latest update to Microsoft's Office 2008 for Mac, Service Pack 2, has created a host of issues for users. One of the more prevalent problems on our comment boards ...