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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

XML Schema is being deployed in applications designed to help oil and gas companies reduce errors and redundant data input between their legacy systems and a federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

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 ...

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 ...