Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

An XML document is a great way to represent information. But some characters, such as the ampersand, can be problematic because they have special meaning. Here is how to avoid the pitfalls presented ...

XML tagging has been hailed as one of the best ways to track data on the Web and inside of corporations. But even XML has its limits with legacy data. XML, or Extensible Markup Language, was developed ...

As budgets are tightened and staff downsized, IT departments have to find new ways of leveraging XML's tagging schema to access data from disparate sources. Screen scraping, the traditional method, ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

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 ...

A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support ...