My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

I have a large spreadsheet with four columns of data that I need to parse into an XML script. There is about 350 rows of data. Here is an example of the script with ...

A few years ago, I had to sell clients on the merits of XML. Today, XML has unequivocally become the universal format for structured documents and data on the Web. Software vendors are slowly ...