XML provides a tag format that allows content providers to "wrap" data in identifying tags describing that data. Typical examples include distinguishing an author's name from article content by ...

With XML and HTML, a more challenging game is possible, namely, “diagnose the problems with ampersand characters”. Note that this game is about diagnosis not detection.

Groovy continues these advances in ease of Java/XML integration. In this blog post, I look at how use of Groovy’s XmlSlurper makes XML parsing refreshingly easy and almost transparent.

XMLFox XML Editor is a nice freewareprogram that greatly simplifies these tasks. For the uninitiated, XML is a distant cousin to HTML, thelanguage used to describe Web pages.

One of the benefits of learning how to read XML is the ability to gather useful data from a variety of sources. For example, your application might need ticket information from music site that ...