With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

XML has gained considerable popularity over the past few years as the solution to enterprise integration problems. It provides the means for exchanging data in a platform- and language-independent ...

Despite rumors to the contrary, the adult entertainment industry is not developing its own dialect of Extensible Markup Language dubbed XXXML. Aside from that, it's hard to find an industry or ...

I was once asked to help in a project that required a simple data transformer for converting raw bill data into different bill layouts. After receiving a brief introduction to the problem, I suggested ...

One of the benefits of learning how to read XML is the ability to gather useful data from a variety of sources. For example, your application might need ticket information from music site that hosts a ...

First off, I really don't understand streams. There's the Stream stream, and the MemoryStream stream, FileStream stream and probably a lot more. I understand how they are useful, but cannot really ...