XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not make ...

THE GOOD NEWS is that Office 11 supports XML Schema. The bad news is that XML Schema has been described even by XML experts as “confusing,” “impenetrable,” “fuzzy,” and “as user-friendly as a stick in ...

Last week, officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a partnership to explore future development of a Global Extensible Markup Language ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The “exciting” things programmers like is making things happen — deep down, every programmer out there got their start because ...

Customers say they want them, vendors are scrambling to provide them, and opinions vary as to how to set them up correctly. They are XML databases, a way to store, search, and retrieve all that ...