It's been an eternal source of debate in IT circles: Can good design overcome the compulsion to simply throw new hardware and systems at a problem? This debate is now front and center in the emerging ...

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 ...

If today's XML data usage trend were made into a science-fiction movie, XML could star as the new "Blob." But instead of aiming to destroy a large city, this XML blob aims to engulf the world's ...

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 ...

An XML document is a great way to represent information. But some characters, such as the ampersand, can be problematic because they have special meaning. Here is how to avoid the pitfalls presented ...

The XPath and XSLT techniques I mentioned last week will become as fundamental to this generation of developers as SQL was to the last. Likewise XQuery, the query language for XML data that’s finally ...

I'm trying to take an XML document and dump the contents into a table. Not as XML using the SQL Server 2005 XML datatype, but as the parsed data values into a table with a column for each ...

Most professional business programmers have found themselves on the receiving end of more than a few crazy requirement or design documents at least once in their careers. These stoic programmers grind ...

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl ...

January 2026 marks the start of a new reporting era under the amended Common Reporting Standard (CRS). The OECD released the ...