Have you ever played the “spot the development platform” game? In my version of it, points are awarded to players who correctly guess what programming language an application is written in, simply by ...

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 ...

Let’s say we need a JavaScript function that will take a string of tagged text (that is, it contains Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup) and return only the tags (and not the text that the tags ...

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 ...

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

An XML element attribute is a tag property that adds additional information to XML data. You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...

If you read the Google docs on XML Sitemaps and look at the lastmod field, Google says "Google reads the lastmod value, but if you misrepresent this value, we will stop reading it." Lily Ray asked ...

Ixiasoft on Monday will introduce a beta version of its Textml Server 3.0 database product for native XML storage, featuring boosted security. The company said reliability and productivity have been ...