As my column Creating Complex XML Documents with XML Literals indicates, I think your best choice for creating complex XML documents is to use XML Literals with the XElement object. As I note in that ...

One way to store information in a hierarchical way is in a XML file. XML provides a great way to store objects and their attributes in a plain-text file. Although plain text, XML isn't just some ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...

I’ll come straight to the point this week (for a change). XML is not – repeat NOT – a ‘file format’ in the sense that most people use the phrase ‘file format’. In order to back up this strong ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...

I have a slightly weird requirement but I'm not sure how to go about this. Looking for any ideas...<P>I've written a sort of query generator for an intranet application we're developing. The query ...

This year’s upcoming debut of Microsoft Office 11 will mark the start of a long process of education and adaptation. Our previous look at the Office 11 beta (see “XML for the rest of us”) painted the ...

Microsoft has decided to submit its Open XML document schema to the EMCA global standards body in a bid to get it ratified as a standardized document format. Open XML is the document format that ...