In this article, Lamont Adams gives an introduction of XML and its basic syntax. Whatever the reason, you're lacking in XML savvy and want to remedy the situation. Well, you're in the right place.

The trouble is that the statement “100% XML-compliant” refers only to the syntax, not the spirit. ... a Lotus 123 spreadsheet, or a Postscript file in XML format is trivial.

XML represents such description data, borrowing the markup syntax of HTML to wrap data in "meta data." Using any programming language, even C, a programmer can print formatted XML markup to a file ...

XML is more difficult to manage than JSON format. Converting XML into a JavaScript object takes up to tens or hundreds more lines of code compared to JSON, and it requires an XML parser. XML documents ...

XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. To be formal about it, XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Practically speaking, XML is a method to structure ...

XML databases can handle data of just about any size or format. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.