Once you have your data in XML, a world of opportunities and tools (both client side and server side) are open to you. Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience ranges ...

Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

If you don't already, start thinking about designing your Web pages with a single, cohesive theme. You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side ...

Visual Studio offers XML Expressions for programmers who need to create dynamic XML files or Web content. A standard XML page provides developers with a platform-free way to exchange data, because ...

In the early days of using Java in conjunction with XML, it often seemed more difficult than it should be to use the Java programming language with the XML markup language. Besides the non-trivial and ...

As XML-based Web services continue to evolve, a new category of XML-aware data routers is emerging that could smooth out Web services transactions. These devices act as intermediaries at the network ...

One of the benefits of learning how to read XML is the ability to gather useful data from a variety of sources. For example, your application might need ticket information from music site that hosts a ...

XML is a powerful and flexible way to encode data, but designingXML “schema” (the rules by which data is encoded) is oftendifficult. Verifying that your XML documents conform to the schemacan be ...