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Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a structured document format that defines human- and machine-readable encoding rules.

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Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex?

One mistake I see people making over and over again is trying to parse XML or HTML with a regex. Here are a few of the reasons parsing XML and HTML is hard: People want to treat a file as a sequence ...
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A simple program to CRUD node and node values of xml file

I decided to save setting in xml file since field takes only one value. My XML file is like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <setting> <setting1>setting1 ...
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Best XML Parser for PHP [closed]

I have used the XML Parser before, and even though it worked OK, I wasn't happy with it in general, it felt like I was using workarounds for things that should be basic functionality. I recently saw ...
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Best XML parser for Java [closed]

I need to read smallish (few MB at the most, UTF-8 encoded) XML files, rummage around looking at various elements and attributes, perhaps modify a few and write the XML back out again to disk ...
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XML parsing of a variable string in JavaScript

I have a variable string that contains well-formed and valid XML. I need to use JavaScript code to parse this feed. How can I accomplish this using (browser-compatible) JavaScript code?
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How does one parse XML files? [closed]

The default methods for dealing with XML in C# seem incredibly crude to me, leading me to suspect that I must be missing something in my searches. Is there a simpler method of parsing XML files in C#? ...
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How to parse XML using the SAX parser

I'm following this tutorial. It works great but I would like it to return an array with all the strings instead of a single string with the last element. Any ideas how to do this?
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Where can I get a list of the XML document escape characters?

Where can I get a list of the XML document escape characters?
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How to Deserialize XML document

How do I Deserialize this XML document: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Cars> <Car> <StockNumber>1020</StockNumber> <Make>Nissan</Make> ...
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Declaring a custom android UI element using XML

How do I declare an Android UI element using XML?
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Parse XML with Namespace using SimpleXML

I have this as xml: <event:event> <event:sessionKey></event:sessionKey> <event:sessionName>Learn QB in Minutes</event:sessionName> ...
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Best practice to save application settings in a Windows Forms Application

What I want to achieve is very simple: I have a Windows Forms (.NET 3.5) application that uses a path for reading information. This path can be modified by the user, by using the options form I ...
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how to pretty print xml from Java

I have a Java String that contains XML, with no line feeds and indentations. I would like to turn in into a String with nicely formatted XML. How do I do this? String unformattedXml = ...
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How to generate sample XML documents from their DTD or XSD? [closed]

We are developing an application that involves a substantial amount of XML transformations. We do not have any proper input test data per se, only DTD or XSD files. We'd like to generate our test data ...
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How to convert array to SimpleXML

How can I convert an array to a SimpleXML object in PHP?

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