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.

I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but ...

Applications frequently need to store persistent data, and the format for saving can be any format conceivable by the developer. However, each time a new application is written, the set of tools for ...