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 ...

The Web was originally intended to make content easily accessible. Today, Web developers focus on style and marketing, but the need to put together content-driven Web sites quickly and easily remains ...

Just when you thought the uncontrolled forces of the Web were finally getting manageable, along comes multidimensional data. We’re talking XML, which unlocks data from many sources for many ...

In this book excerpt, Frank P. Coyle provides this easy-to-grasp description of XML. XML is simple. Technically, it’s a language for creating other languages based on the insertion of tags to help ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...