In this book excerpt, Frank P. Coyle provides this easy-to-grasp description of XML. XML is simple. Technically, it’s a language for creating other languages based on the insertion of tags to help ...

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 much ...

XML has spread like wildfire within the IT community. Microsoft has fully embraced it within the .NET initiative, and the Web service movement is fueled by XML. Most developers have some firsthand ...