In this book excerpt, Frank P. Coyle provides this easy-to-grasp description of XML. XML is simple. Technically, it’s a language for creating other languages based on the insertion of tags to help ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become much ...

XML has spread like wildfire within the IT community. Microsoft has fully embraced it within the .NET initiative, and the Web service movement is fueled by XML. Most developers have some firsthand ...

browser which language, and version is being used: This is the XML declaration. While it is not required, its presence explicitly identifies the document as an XML ...

This is the XML declaration. While it is not required, its presence explicitly identifies the document as an XML document and indicates the version of XML to which it ...