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 ...

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 ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

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 ...

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Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

The XPath and XSLT techniques I mentioned last week will become as fundamental to this generation of developers as SQL was to the last. Likewise XQuery, the query language for XML data that’s finally ...

What is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)? AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique aimed at creating better and faster interactive web apps by combining several programming tools, ...

This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...