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 ...

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 ...

Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See "XML on the wane? Say it isn't so ...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document. In this blog entry, I will look at using Apache XMLBeans‘s tool called inst2xsd to also generate ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, is a standard managed by the World Wide Web Consortium. The flexible text format was initially designed for data exchange on the Internet. Yet it's become much ...