Following discussions with the British Business Bank (BBB) â the body established by Government that manages the scheme-the bank decided it was appropriate to examine a sample of EFG customer files.
It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for different human languages. Although the design of XML focuses on documents, the language is widely used for the representation of arbitrary data structures such as those used in web services.
A better approach to retrieving information from XML files is to use an XML parser. An XML parser is, quite simply, software that reads an XML file and makes available the data in it. As a Visual Basic developer you want to use a parser that supports the XML Document Object Model (DOM).