Applications frequently need to store persistent data, and the format for saving can be any format conceivable by the developer. However, each time a new application is written, the set of tools for ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

XML is a markup-based data description language designed to allow developers to create structured documents using descriptive custom tags. The intent of XML is to separate the description of the data ...