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.

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

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 ...

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.

For those of us who have spent entire careers working with structured data, it comes as something of a surprise to be reminded that XML is now 25 years old. You probably missed the XML standard on ...

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 ...

We're losing control of the hundreds of disparate XML vocabularies we've developed, the mountains of XML-ized data we've generated and the millions of XML-enabled software components we've created.

HTML and XML are structural foundations of every website or application. It is crucial that developers learn — and master — both.

When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

XML was useful in its time, but it has been supplanted by faster, more flexible formats.

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.