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 ...

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 ...

A major Internet standards body has come a step closer to making a key recommendation that promises to greatly enhance Web programming capabilities. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced ...

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 ...

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Calling it one of the final pieces of the XML puzzle, the Web's leading standards body proposed a uniform way of identifying elements within XML documents. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) on ...

I have previously blogged on several utilitarian tools that are provided with the Java SE 6 HotSpot SDK such as jstack, javap, and so forth. I focus on another tool ...

XML, a way to code documents for easy transfer between applications, is widely seen as a key enabling technology for e-commerce in the future. Today’s HTML-based Web just can’t provide the flexible ...

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas and accompanying documentation. The Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas enable organizations of all sizes to utilize industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) ...

The definition of an XML document, which identifies the XML tags and includes the rules for their interrelationships; for example, there must be at least one B tag within every tag A, or there can ...