Another great thing about storing the shopping cart data in XML format is that when it comes time to create the View Shopping Cart functionality, you can simply run this through an XSL transformation.

XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data ...

With about a day of work, Brandt’s SAX XML parser can be converted into a simple DOM-type parser that has the ability to manage data as well as read and write the data in XML format. The parser ...

That's where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.