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 ...

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As indispensable as computers are in electronics design, they have too often failed in this context to support long-term business objectives. To date, there has been scarcely little effort to ...

Microsoft Office System 2003 contains significant enhancements to the abilities of MS Office applications to manipulate information (structured and unstructured) using XML. Such enhancements will ...

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Visual Studio 2005 and earlier versions have a graphical XML schema window that was intended to support schemas for typed and untyped Recordsets, but not much else. The Visual Studio team dropped the ...

Microsoft said Monday it will license for free its Microsoft Office 2003 XML (Extensible Markup Language) schemas, a move that will help outside developers enable other programs to trade data with ...

The definition of an XML document, which identifies the XML tags and includes the rules for their interrelationships; for example, there must be at least one B tag within every tag A, or there can ...