A document in XML usually has a large size, especially when it uses an element-centric approach to formatting. HTML has a brief syntax and produces formatted text.

Despite the wide adoption of the Document Object Model (DOM) and the Simple API for XML (SAX), enterprise developers face the numerous shortcomings of these technologies almost daily. Performance ...

“But if the relational database does not have XML extensions, you will need to ‘teach’ it how to handle all the hierarchies associated with an XML document,” he says.

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An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications.