Whatever the reason, you're lacking in XML savvy and want to remedy the situation. Well, you're in the right place. In this article, Lamont Adams gives an introduction of XML and its basic syntax.

The trouble is that the statement “100% XML-compliant” refers only to the syntax, not the spirit. It is entirely possible to create closed, proprietary IT systems that are 100% XML based.

With XML evolving at a rapid pace, many developers get lost in a sea of acronyms. And since XML is fast becoming the way to exchange data, chances are you will need first-hand XML knowledge ...

The most important part of the XML core is the XML syntax specification itself, which defines the “angle bracket” syntax of XML documents as well as the rather arcane, but still widely used ...

As one example of XML’s importance, consider Web Services for Mac OS X. They’re XML-based applications, hosted on the Internet, which provide information and services to customers and users ...

BioXSD is annotated with EDAM terms, thus serving as an example of XML Schema annotation and as a set of ready-made building blocks for Semantic Web service interfaces.The practical, combined ...

A successor to the original browser markup language, XHTML combined the vocabulary of HTML with the syntax of XML, and in the process it stripped away many of the inconsistencies and bad coding ...