The rules that apply to the data types in a programming language. Every language supports some number of data types (binary, text string, floating point, etc.) that are processed by the instructions.

Welcome back to my series on the fundamentals of XML for programmers. The first article in this series introduced you to the basic structure of an XML document and the syntax involved in defining that ...

In a Web services world, applications basically consist of remote, XML-driven components written in different languages connected via the Web using a standard remote-activation protocol. Service ...