Microsoft adding XML files to Office 12 XML-based file formats in the offing for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications are expected to free up data and improve security.

The XML file format is primarily based on the notion of "metadata." Metadata is, as the name suggests, data about data. XML provides a tag format that allows content providers to "wrap" data in ...

Let’s get started. 1] Open XML file in MS Excel It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to open XML documents and view or edit their content.

Click on the "Data" menu in Excel and choose "XML," then "XML Source" to open the "XML Source" task pane. Click on the "XML Maps" button, then click "Add" and choose the XML map file you created ...

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. XML is an open data format which gained popularity in ...

Click on the Plugins > XML Tools > Validate Now option. Browse and select an XSD file to validate the XML file against it. Now, let us discuss the above steps in elaboration!

Each Sitemap file can reference only one domain. The Sitemap can be placed anywhere (on a different domain or in a subfolder) as long as its location is referenced in the domain’s robots.txt file.

FYI, it currently takes 20 minutes to generate a 'pretty-print' XML file from the upstream-provided XML data file using a very simple SAX parser I stole from the 'net.

Correction October 10th, 5:30PM ET: The new Music app can still export XML files, but it is losing the feature that automatically syncs them with other apps. A statement from Apple initially said ...

The Sitemaps.xml files are not full text feeds, they are just directional data for search engines to easily find your most important content. A crawler then does the rest of the work.