What if every bit of data in every computer included instructions about its content that would allow any other computer to interact with it? Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation ...

Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. They needed a new format for Internet-connected ...

At work, we upgraded from Visual Studio 6 to .NET 2003 this autumn. After seeing the new year thread about new languages, I thought it would not be a bad idea to upgrade some of my skills. So I'm ...

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 ...

There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the document’s ...

More than any previous technology, XML lets IT professionals tie their efforts to business results. Because XML is a self-descriptive protocol, IT professionals can use it to encapsulate, share, reuse ...

This is a bit loaded question as if you're looking at this page, it's rendered from (X)HTML = XML. But what I am interested in (for a talk / research topic) is if people are still choosing (directly ...

NEW YORK—Wall Street banks and brokerages are stumbling over one another to install their own versions of XML to interconnect internal legacy hardware and applications. But IT managers at those firms ...

Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...