XML Training Guide for Developers and Engineers

Reading Time: 6 minutesXML is great at describing structured data, but that doesn’t always mean it’s ready to be consumed. You might receive XML from an integration partner, export it from a legacy system, or generate it from a content pipeline. Then you discover the real problem: the structure is not what your application, report, or users need. […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesXML, HTML, and JSON are three technologies that often get mixed up—especially by beginners. They can all show up as “text with symbols,” they can all travel over the internet, and they can all represent some form of structure. But they are not competing versions of the same thing. Each exists for a different goal. […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesXML is often described as “self-describing,” but XML by itself doesn’t guarantee that a document contains the right elements in the right structure with the right data types. XML syntax rules only ensure a document is well-formed. Validation adds the next layer: it checks whether the document matches an agreed contract. In real systems—especially enterprise […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you build APIs today, chances are your default stack looks like REST plus JSON. It’s fast to implement, easy to test, and friendly to browsers and mobile apps. Because of that, XML is often treated as a relic—something you only meet when integrating with an older enterprise system. But the reality is more nuanced. […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you started building web applications in the last few years, you probably think of APIs as “JSON by default.” That’s a fair assumption: JSON is lightweight, easy to read, and fits naturally with JavaScript-based stacks. Because of that, XML is sometimes labeled as outdated—something you only encounter when maintaining legacy systems. But XML never […]

Reading Time: 7 minutesSOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is one of those technologies that many developers hear about early, assume is “legacy,” and then unexpectedly meet again in real projects—especially in enterprise software, finance, telecom, healthcare, and government systems. While modern APIs often default to REST and JSON, SOAP remains widely used because it focuses on strict messaging […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesXML is still everywhere: configuration files, enterprise integrations, legacy APIs, document formats, data feeds, and systems that haven’t migrated to JSON for good reasons. But XML is only useful if you can parse it reliably and efficiently. The tricky part is that “parsing XML” can mean very different things depending on the parser model you […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesXML and HTML are fundamentally different technologies, each created with a distinct purpose in mind. Although they are both markup languages and use tags, they are not interchangeable. A common misconception is that XML is an advanced or newer version of HTML designed to replace it. In reality, this is not true — both languages […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesOracle Database 11g introduced a wide range of enhancements across multiple areas, including application development, availability, performance, security, business intelligence, clustering, and database manageability. These improvements were designed to increase scalability, reliability, and ease of administration for enterprise environments. Application Development Enhancements Oracle Application Express (APEX) received several significant improvements in Oracle 11g. These enhancements […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesLoading XML data into Flash presentations allows you to create dynamic and easily updatable content. By modifying only the XML file, you can change the data displayed in a Flash movie without editing the Flash source itself. Understanding how Flash loads and processes XML data makes it possible to build flexible presentations where content can […]