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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.