The W3C has published a first public working draft of XML Schema Patterns for Common Data Structures, a set of data types, structures and schema patterns to increase Web services interoperability.

XML is a language designed to standardize the communication at the message level. As shown in Figure 2a, the AGML schema describes a precise structural relationship between <spot> and its attributes.

Microsoft is often criticized for the proprietary technology tactics it uses to protect its desktop software dominance. Freely licensing the schema for Office 2003’s XML implementation is a step ...

As technologies have matured and APIs for Java and other languages have taken more of the burden of low-level coding off your hands (JMS, EJB, and XML are just a few recent examples), business ...

Though XML Schema powerfully expresses an XML document's structure, it has a steep initial learning curve. This article gets you up that hill fast. Author Graham King explains XML Namespaces and ...

The World Wide Web Consortium standards group has approved the XML Schema specification. If the standard is adopted by businesses, it will allow them to communicate and conduct transactions ...

Hoping to shift industry focus to the company's new "kindler, gentler" business approach, Microsoft has announced the availability of royalty-free licensing of its Office 2003 XML reference ...

The XML tags that define the elements of a document are collectively called a schema. Microsoft has yet to disclose the proprietary dialect - or underlying schema - of the XML used in Office 2003.

Redmond claims its decisions to open its XML schemas, while seeking patents for elements of its XML implementations, are not as contradictory as they appear.

The recently announced XML-based file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint -- formats that Microsoft has claimed to be "open" -- are getting some heat for not only pushing the boundaries on the ...

There is no standard e-discovery XML schema in wide use, but consultants George Socha andTom Gelbmann are promoting one crafted as part of their groundbreaking Electronic DiscoveryReference Model ...