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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

With a name like Extensible Markup Language, it must be boring. Right? Shorten that to XML and think again. Fast becoming a requirement for conducting business online, XML is the key to flexibility.

XML structures vary widely in arrangement, complexity, and whether the data is held in content or attributes. A variation of this sample XML is used throughout this article.

In Exchanging Data With XML and JAXB, Part 1, we saw how the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) expedites the exchange of data between systems. With JAXB 2.0’s annotation support, generating XML ...

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 ...