XML Generator Fundamentals

As XML continues to establish itself as a powerful means of sharing and storing structured information, more and more developers will be called upon to modify existing Web-based applications to support XML. Part of this modification will involve converting large data stores into structured XML documents. When you consider the sheer size of some databases, converting the data manually just isn't an option. Therefore, an automated approach to XML data conversion is necessary.

The delimited text file is one particular form of data representation that has been used to move information between different databases. Basically, it consists of rows of text that correspond to records in a database. Within each row of text, each ...

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