XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become much ...

This is the XML declaration. While it is not required, its presence explicitly identifies the document as an XML document and indicates the version of XML to which it ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - "Structured text designed for communication between machines." Sounds simple enough, right? That's XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as defined by Alex Chervet of Echelon Corp.