Ok. I am not an expert on and language but I get by decent enough on
javascript, PHP (and mySQL), VB (which has nothing to do with this), I
can do perl if I have to... But I do not have a clear understanding of
what XML is.

It appears to be a simple mark up language yet, from what I see, the
mark up looks like it is whatever is wanted. I mean it looks like you
make up your own tags. Is that basically what it is, some form of
customer "html"? - but I imagine that you need something that describes
what the tags do.

How does one implement XML?
What is it used for?

Also (not as important)...
I have a large XML file (KJV of The Bible) it has a lot of data in it.
I need to breaking up for use in a mySQL database. My initial idea would
be to us VB to work on the tags. But I thought there might already be
something out there that would let me define how to handle tags (such as
I want some tags gone, I have no need for them) and I want the XML split
in certain ways. I would like some of the tags attributes (I do not know
what else to call them) shortened to only the needed ones for my purpose)...

So is it best just to write some VB or is there something like that?