A method for identifying XML elements and attributes that have the same name, but different meanings. For example, ADDRESS is a tag that can be used to identify totally different data elements such as ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that the forthcoming Office 12 will save to XML by default and that earlier versions will be retrofitted to work with XML. This week Apple released its podcast-aware ...

There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the document’s ...

XML namespaces associate element and attribute names in an XML document with custom and predefined URIs. To create these associations, you define prefixes for namespace URIs, and use those prefixes to ...

To write a query on XML that's in a namespace, you use XName objects that have the correct namespace. Learn how to do this in C# and Visual Basic, and how to create queries. To write a query on XML ...