Chapter 11. XML Issues

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a text format designed to represent data so that it can easily be shared between different computer systems. Although XML has existed for almost 10 years, over the last few years the format has been become extremely popular. Many Web browsers, word processors, databases, and Web servers use XML today. The XML format is used to send data across the network or to store data as a local file. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to security test applications that interact with XML. The first part of the chapter describes how to test for non-XML vulnerabilities ...

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