The text between the tags is the data. A database isn't much good without a way to retrieve, update, and insert data. You perform those operations with XML using a parser and a set of objects exposed by the parser. I'll show you how to get started using an XML parser. Microsoft's XML parser resides in a file called msxml.dll.
Some tags contain other tags.
For example, the tag contains all other tags. By default, IE5 uses the msxml parser to display XML documents as an expandable outline list. How the CPerson.xml File Appears in IE5 Click here . In a database, the schema determines the order and datatype of each column. Because independent XML authors might use the same names to mean different things, each document and each tag may also use a namespace.