What is XML and Why Should Companies Use It? By using Extensible Markup Language, or XML, companies can parse information including data and content in a variety of ways.

XML organizes data and contains instructions for understanding that organization. XML can present data so it can be read by a person or by a computer. Let's admit right from the ...

Five years after XML's birth as a W3C recommendation, some of its major players tell about its successes, failures and coming challenges.

XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a ...

XML makes its mark On the fifth birthday of the Extensible Markup Language, developers reflect on how the young standard has grown to prominence in a coming wave of Web-based services. CNET staff ...

Help search engines crawl your site smarter. Learn what an XML sitemap is, how to create one, and why it’s essential for SEO and site visibility.

Nearly everyone is talking about XML these days. But few understand what it's really about. CNET throws some light on this new markup language for the Web.

XML databases can handle data of just about any size or format. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics.

An amusing moment in the XML standard — quite possibly the only snippet of the standard anyone’s likely to call amusing — is the bit early in the introduction that proclaims: It shall be ...