My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

The Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance is designed for sharing information between different word processing applications. This article highlights the basic structure of ODF files, some internals of ...

I'm trying to run Xpath queries using etree, but I can't seem to figure out the Xpath syntax. Here's a (sanitized) section of my XML document. 1) Query using XML based on some value like the 'id' or ...

What are JSON, XML, and YAML? Text-file formats that can be used to store structured data that can be handy for embedded and Web applications. Most developers will be familiar with XML (Extensible ...