You'll find several areas of interest regarding XML usage in SQL Server Reporting Services.

Stored procedure XML This screenshot lists the source of a SQL Server 2014 stored procedure hitting the AdventureWorks2012 database, selecting data from the Customer and SalesOrderHeader tables.

There are plenty of applications in production that use the Hibernate framework exclusively without JPA. That is why I figured it would also be helpful to provide an example hibernate.cfg.xml for ...

Annotation versus XML configuration: Which JPA option to choose? A common debate in the JPA community is whether to configure applications using an XML or annotations based approach. Here are some ...