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 ...

COMMENTARY -- The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It's the next software development ...

XML, the metalanguage that is used for defining data elements on a Web page and business-to-business documents, is continuing to boom. Its now six years since the introduction of the XML spec, and now ...