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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Wide Web Consortium released eight new standards for its XML line on Jan. 23. The new Web standards are designed to help businesses request information from a database, transform and access ...

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 ...

REDMOND, Wash., Apr. 15, 2004 Microsoft today announced the addition of the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 XML Reference Schema to its open and royalty-free documentation and license program that was ...

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 ...