Once you have your data in XML, a world of opportunities and tools (both client side and server side) are open to you. Phillip Perkins is a contractor with Ajilon Consulting. His experience ranges ...

SQL Server Reporting Services is fast becoming the mainstay for custom reporting in Microsoft-based shops. Connecting to relational tables, views, and procedures is easy and productive, and with ...

Visual Studio offers XML Expressions for programmers who need to create dynamic XML files or Web content. A standard XML page provides developers with a platform-free way to exchange data, because ...

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 ...

With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

XML has gained considerable popularity over the past few years as the solution to enterprise integration problems. It provides the means for exchanging data in a platform- and language-independent ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

These text-file formats can all be used to store structured data for embedded and Web applications—but there are differences among them. What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be ...

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