If you've been following this series on Builder.com, you already know that XML describes the structure of data and makes no assumptions about what the data it describes actually is, and whether that ...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document. In this blog entry, I will look at using Apache XMLBeans‘s tool called inst2xsd to also generate ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

Sure, .NET’s got great support for XML, but what’s a VB6 programmer to do? Learn to work with MSXML2’s DOM parser, that’s what. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas and accompanying documentation. The Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas enable organizations of all sizes to utilize industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) ...

With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

While designing large databases, one of the most commonly done things to incorporate future additions to the data fields is, adding a number of generic fields that can later be used as additional data ...

If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...