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 ...

ABSTRACT: With increasing usage of a web services today, user required to consecrate reasoning energy to learning the complexities of the interface as opposed to the content. Interface complexity ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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) ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

More than a decade after implementing support for secure HTTPS connections on its website, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finally planning to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the ...