Sun Microsystems is linking two prominent Web development languages--Java and XML--to simplify e-commerce software development and to better position Java against rival technologies. Sun on Monday ...

The Microsoft .NET Framework includes multiple tools for generating XML documents, but the tools suffer from one failing: If the XML document is at all complicated then it's difficult to write code ...

XML refers to Extensible Markup Language, which is a language similar to HTML. If you have an XML document, you may be wondering how to open it. Although you can open an XML file in Notepad, the ...

XML has gained considerable popularity over the past few years as the solution to enterprise integration problems. It provides the means for exchanging data in a platform- and language-independent ...

With the publication of a new specification, the Web's leading standards organization promised XML authors a simpler way to merge documents. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday recommended ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

An XML document is a great way to represent information. But some characters, such as the ampersand, can be problematic because they have special meaning. Here is how to avoid the pitfalls presented ...

If you're creating an XML document and want to write code that you'll actually be able to maintain … well, it may be time to learn a little Visual Basic, just so you can use XML Literals. It's a good ...

With the publication of a new specification, the Web's leading standards organization promised XML authors a simpler way to merge documents. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday recommended ...