Pointing to specific parts of XML documents is expected to become easier through a newly approved World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation, W3C announced on Tuesday. W3C issued its XML Pointer ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

Microsoft Corp. announced that it is adopting industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology for the default file formats in the next version of Microsoft Office editions, currently ...

XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. To be formal about it, XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Practically speaking, XML is a method to structure ...

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 ...

The World Wide Consortium standards body has asked the developer community to test drive a specification for adding links to extensible markup language documents. The World Wide Consortium (W3C) ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...

Technical book publisher O’Reilly announced on Tuesday the publication of Michael Fitzgerald’s “XML Hacks” (US$24.95), a 460-page tome that documents “100 industrial-strength tips and tools” for ...