This brief excerpt of Frank P. Coyle's book explains that XML is "more than just tags," and says the power of XML is that it was designed to do only one thing and do it well.

Your basic XML document Listing A shows a canonical example of an XML document describing a list of books.

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become ...

Unlike SGML, XML does not require a document type declaration. However, a document type declaration can be supplied, and some documents will require one in order to be understood unambiguously. (A ...

Chervet was one of several presenters at the first-ever XML Symposium 2004, sponsored by the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) and Clasma Inc. The daylong tutorial on XML, held at the ...

XML structures vary widely in arrangement, complexity, and whether the data is held in content or attributes. A variation of this sample XML is used throughout this article.

Transformations basics When XML needs to be viewed, it must go through a transformation. The transformation refers to reading the raw XML file and then stripping the XML tags and replacing them ...