XML is the language of a powerful cross-platform mark-up is ready to be adopted as the standard in many areas of web and software development. Chris Bates shows how to use XML in modern software development and back of a comprehensive treatment of key points with clear, practical examples. Programmers and developers want the range AZ and practical how-to, will find a guide to phased in: create data, storage formats, implements the interface, provides a wireless protocol in distributed applications (SOAP), and create the format of the data on the web. Chris Bates provides live code in Java to demonstrate how XML can be used in application development and also provide details of how XML parsers work.