It took two and a half years, but the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally released its XML Schema Recommendation. The W3C XML schema defines shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you take a look at the vast number of different XML formats being used to describe something as intuitively simple as an invoice form, you can see one of the problems that is now beginning to crop ...

The second-generation .NET Framework builds on the tools of the first to provide better, more standards-compliant XML data validation. Technology Toolbox: XML, .NET Framework 2.0 Version 1.x of the ...

As Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Recommendation of the XML Schema in Hong Kong, Microsoft Corp. jumped on the publication of the recommendation with three new ...