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利用VB操作XML数据(国外英语资料) What is the XML Extensible markup language XML is a simple language data storage, and use a simple set of tags to describe the data, and these markers can be used convenient way to establish, although the XML takes the space take up more space than binary data, XML is extremely simple easy to master and use. XML and Access, such as Oracle and SQL Server database, the database provides a more powerful data storage and analysis ability, for example: data indexing, sorting, search, consistency, etc., XML is just a display data. In fact, the biggest difference between XML and other data formats is that he is extremely simple. This is a seemingly trivial advantage, but it is this that makes XML unique. XML simple makes it easy to read and write data in any application, it makes XML quickly become the only public data exchange language, although different applications also support other data interchange formats, but soon they will support XML, it means that the program can be more easily with Windows and Mac OS, Linux, and other platform of information, and then can easy to load the XML data to the program and analyze him, and the output in XML format. The advantages of XML We talked about XML is longer than the exchange of data between different applications, the XML file also facilitate the construction of a small database, not long ago, the software use INI file to store configuration information, user preferences, and other information, then introduced the Microsoft system registry, pick up a Microsoft told we should no longer use INI files, since then the Visual Basic support for the INI file is weakened. But unfortunately the registry has several fatal weakness: is not a simple text file, difficult to read and write, is likely to become large and slow, if the registry somehow appear problem, will likely result in system crash. The configuration information in an XML file can avoid these problems, you can even set the XML file to a Shared file, so