XML has emerged in only five years as a startlingly powerful means of handling data. It has also been accompanied by a slew of "X-centric" helper tools, APIs and standards such as XSLT, XPath and, of ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

What is JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, human-readable data interchange format used to exchange data between web clients and web servers. The ...

What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be used to store structured data that can be handy for embedded and Web applications. Most developers will be familiar with XML (Extensible ...