XML is a markup-based data description language designed to allow developers to create structured documents using descriptive custom tags. The intent of XML is to separate the description of the data ...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has gained tremendous popularity over recent years because of its ease of use and portability. When coupled with the Java programming language, the end result is a ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ ...

One problem that has plagued XML development is the complexity of parsing and using XML. Everybody knows the advantages of using XML, but I doubt many people are able to write a piece of code that ...

Making devices communicate with one another is not as simple as putting them all on a network. Devices must understand each other's data formats if they are to exchange information successfully. That ...

While a well-formed document is well-formed because it follows rules defined by the XML spec, a valid document is valid because it matches its document type definition (DTD). The DTD is the grammar ...