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XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

These text-file formats can all be used to store structured data for embedded and Web applications—but there are differences among them. What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be ...

I don't use Visual Studio's Edit menu enough, obviously: For some time there's been a Paste Special option on that menu that I didn't know about. It has up to two choices depending on what kind of ...

If you are not familiar with JSON, it stands for Java Script Object Notation and is an open standard format that uses human readable text for data interchanges. Despite its name, it is separate to ...

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's clearly an important feature for data developers ...