Having absorbed objects, the RDBMS vendors are now working hard to absorb XML documents. Don’t expect a simple rerun of the last movie, though. We’ve always known that most of the information ...

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 ...

promises to provide a common interface for accessing XML documents. The W3C has defined the so-called Document Object Model (DOM), which provides a standard interface for working with an XML ...

The first article in this series introduced you to the basic structure of an XML document and the syntax involved in defining that structure. If you'll recall, an XML document by itself only ...

While the XML is centered on documents, the language can also be used to represent any arbitrary data structure, including those used for web services. Users have the freedom to design their own ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows ...

Besides being able to use standard methods of encryption when transmitting XML documents, the W3C and IETF propose a standard for encrypting the XML data and tags within a document. This would let ...

There used to be two ways of doing this: setting up callback handlers that get invoked when a particular element type is recognized (SAX), or creating an XML document tree and using tree ...

An XML map allows a business to arrange data stored in XML documents so that the information can be easily imported into a predefined table in an application such as Microsoft Excel. In this way ...