If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...

XML is a great way to store structured data, but finding that data in a way that makes sense can be difficult. Each language has a specific way of querying namespaces, elements and attributes in an ...

Often it is useful for XML data to be presented as a spreadsheet. A typical spreadsheet (for example, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet) consists of cells represented in a grid of rows and columns, ...

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 the ...

My last JavaWorld article “Simplify XML Processing with VTD-XML” looked at three important benefits of VTD-XML: performance, memory usage, and ease of use. VTD-XML makes XML applications not only ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it’s increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That’s where the Perl ...

This chapter describes methods to convert XML documents to rows in relational tables. This conversion is commonly known as shredding or decomposing of XML documents. Given the rich support for XML ...

The complexType is defined at the point at which it is initially declared. A sequence compositor has been applied to the example syntax fragment. Locally declared complexTypes are usually not ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...