XML is the eXtensible Markup Language. It is a format that is easily parsed by computers, but is also readable by programmers.
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Fastest C++ XML parsing library
I have thousands of .xml files from size 1MB-45MB (no DTDs). I need to parse and further manipulate these XML files before generating separate .xml files with the results of my regex.
What the ...
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XML vs SQL for small projects?
I'm working on a small project which will only have one user at a time since it's a local application (developed in WPF and C#). To store data I was thinking of using an XML file but I'm wondering if ...
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Generic file parser design in Java using the Strategy pattern
I am working on a product in which the responsibility of one of the modules is to parse XML files and dump the required content in a database. Even though the present requirement is only to parse XML ...
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What is the importance of XML in the world of JSON?
How important is it to learn XML when JSON is able to do almost all that I need? Having said that, I use JSON mainly for AJAX requests and obtaining data from various APIs.
I am a total newbie to web ...
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How would you feel if your code editor formatted your code for you as you typed, without tabs/spaces?
As with most things, I'm sure this concept has been tried before - I just haven't come across editors that use what I've termed 'Virtual Formatting'. The principle is that there's a floating ...
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How often are comments used in XML documents?
I'm currently developing a web-based XML managing program for a client (though I may 'market' it for future clients). Currently, it reads an XML document, converts it into manageable Javascript ...
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How do I speed up XML parsing operation?
I currently have a php script set up to do some xml parsing. Sometimes the script is set as an on page include and other times it is accessed via an ajax call. The problem is the load time for this ...
