IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language.

Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...

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 ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken a major step toward structured, automated reporting with its requirement that all money market fund activity be filed using the eXtensible Markup ...

The aura of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has lured members of the US-based Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), in conjunction with SIIA's Financial Information Services Division ...

Imagine you work for a smaller manufacturer that decides to digitize its product-development process to make it more efficient. To keep costs down, the company wants to use a standard, open language ...

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 ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

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