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 boatload of ...

XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not make ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...

I'm trying to run Xpath queries using etree, but I can't seem to figure out the Xpath syntax. Here's a (sanitized) section of my XML document. 1) Query using XML based on some value like the 'id' or ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

recognize the Extensible Markup Language as an important solution to their emerging data exchange needs. However, vendors and standards bodies promote different XML standards, thereby generating ...

Google search advocate John Mueller has always downplayed the value of HTML sitemaps. Recently, he reiterated his dissatisfaction with HTML sitemaps, saying: “I changed my mind on HTML sitemaps over ...

Several years ago, Philip Condit, chairman and CEO of Boeing, asked how much business the company did with major suppliers. “To find out, each unit at Boeing had to ask bunches of people who, in turn, ...

The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

We match the document root with . For more examples using this kind of approach, search the Web for ‘xml2csv.’ Converting XML to CSV can help you get started with XSLT. To convert large numbers of ...