HTML and XML are structural foundations of every website or application. It is crucial that developers learn — and master — both.

XML is at least as readable as HTML and probably more so Anyone who understands, more or less, what HTML is probably understands just about everything in Listing 4.

XML provides a universal medium for delivering data, and IE 5.0+ offers the functionality to quickly create data solutions. One of these functions is the ability to bind HTML elements to data ...

Even better, these examples show how to pass XML data to stored procedures, and how they can be made to read single or multiple sets of criteria easily, using only a few lines of TSQL.