On VB columnist Joe Kunk continues his examination of XML comments by extending the XML comment vocabulary with additional default tags in Visual Basic and showing how to process the resulting XML ...

Something about Extensible Markup Language is intimidating. We all hear about it and are aware of it. Yet most people have no idea what it is. XML facilitates data exchange between websites and ...

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 ...

Maybe you've been stranded on a desert island talking to volleyballs, hiding in a cave, or simply avoiding all "Web stuff." Whatever the reason, you're lacking in XML savvy and want to remedy the ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

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 ...

Gary Illyes has recently been pretty active in the StackOverflow forums and just posted in a Stack Overflow thread that Google, and other search engines, mostly ignore the lastmod tag found within XML ...

If hearing “XML this” and “XML that” has your head spinning, this basic tutorial will help. Get up to speed on when, why, and how to use XML. If you’ve been stuck on some legacy project, the gap ...