It took two and a half years, but the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally released its XML Schema Recommendation. The W3C XML schema defines shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML ...

XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

ABSTRACT: With increasing usage of a web services today, user required to consecrate reasoning energy to learning the complexities of the interface as opposed to the content. Interface complexity ...

Companies interested in using XML-based documents such as purchase orders or invoices for their business-to-business transactions got some long-awaited news last week. The XML Schema specification ...

Abstract: The XML schema language is becoming the preferred means of defining and validating highly structured XML instance documents. We have extended the conventional mutation method to be ...

If you've been following this series on Builder.com, you already know that XML describes the structure of data and makes no assumptions about what the data it describes actually is, and whether that ...

To define the structure of an XML document, as well as its element relationships, data types, and content constraints, you use a document type definition (DTD) or XML Schema definition language (XSD) ...

The goal of this article is to examine whether W3C XML Schema provides a practicable solution for the semantic validation of standard-based electronic health record (EHR) documents. With semantic ...

Eager to get Web services developers to conform to one if its key recommendations, the Web's leading standards body has released a set of tests for XML processors. The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) ...

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To define the structure of an XML document, as well as its element relationships, data types, and content constraints, you use a document type definition (DTD) or XML Schema definition language (XSD) ...