Nearly everyone is talking about XML these days. But few understand what it's really about. CNET throws some light on this new markup language for the Web.

XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data ...

On Jan. 23, 2007 the W3C granted Recommendation status to XQuery, the XML query language designed to do for Web services what SQL did for relational databases. XQuery allows you to work in one common ...

In Exchanging Data With XML and JAXB, Part 1, we saw how the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) expedites the exchange of data between systems. With JAXB 2.0’s annotation support ...

Data integration -- for developers who need to process information from XML, relational and other data sources, XQuery can query them all, integrating information from multiple data sources in one XML ...

The debate about JSON vs. XML as a data interchange format has begun in blogspace, following JSON inventor and architect at Yahoo Douglas Crockford's talk at XML 2006 JSON, the fat-free ...

What should you use if you don’t use XML? Your email has been sent Maybe you need to exchange data, but XML is more than you need. Or maybe you just aren't ready for XML. Check out these XML ...

This is accomplished using the ampersand. When the XML parser finds an ampersand in the XML data, it expects to find a symbol name and a semicolon following it.

Mapping XML to type systems of programming languages or databases can be difficult, especially when the data is highly structured to one application.