Posts Tagged ‘xml’

What is a Web Service?

A web service is a way for systems to communicate over a network. They can be as simple as an API (e.g. Google Maps) or as complex as a brokered system that handles transactions for multiple requesters and/or providers. Web services bring with them some huge advantages. Data is packaged via HTTP or HTTPS and [...]

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Simple XML (SimpleXML) Tutorial Part 1

With the increasing use of web services and communications via HTTP, XML has become an industry standard for sending and receiving data among systems. Every language seems to have multiple ways to parse XML, each more complicated than the other. This presents a problem for developers. The majority of the time, developers need to read/write [...]

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