The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.

Because XML data lends itself to a hierarchical structure rather than a relational structure, it may be difficult to store XML data in traditional relational database systems.

Find out the basics of creating XML tags that work well with the J in Ajax, JavaScript, in this excerpt from Ajax for Web Application Developers.

XML Data Structure XML feeds contain the following elements: planitpurple: root element (always present) event: can be none or multiple depending on upcoming events for your group title: event title ...

XML structures vary widely in arrangement, complexity, and whether the data is held in content or attributes. A variation of this sample XML is used throughout this article.

convert data structures to XML, so your applications can rely on XML to retrieve data from multiple sources. But adopting XML sometimes means trading one set of problems for another.

XML makes it easier for companies with incompatible software to talk to each other. The language also helps businesses prioritize information and distribute it across different platforms.

That's where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.

The debate about JSON vs. XML as a data interchange format has begun in blogspace, following JSON inventor and architect at Yahoo Douglas Crockford's talk at XML 2006 JSON, the fat-free ...