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 ...

Eager to get Web services developers to conform to one of its key recommendations, the Web's leading standards body has released a set of tests for XML processors. The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) ...

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 ...

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week published new editions of four core XML data exchange specifications, featuring corrections for known errata and clarifications where potential ...

As the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) winds down its work standardizing the Extensible Markup Language (XML), it is looking back at the history that brought XML to its success today. “W3C XML, the ...

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 ...