A standards group is hoping that a key Web language will provide a standard way for computers and technology to describe human characteristics. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured ...

The design and implementation trade-offs within a native XML database make a significant impact on the performance, scalability and features available to applications that use it. This article focuses ...

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 ...

When the Classwell Learning Group began building a database of online lesson plans and other information for teachers, it needed to store and access content ranging from word processing files to copy ...

XML is here to stay, having become the standard markup syntax for most new Web services protocols, formats and interfaces, such as Simple Object Access Protocol. The flood of XML on networks will ...

The exchange and storage of information has emerged as a crucial aspect of technological, economic and human progress in today's society. Computer aided systems help to administer this information ...

Web Services Security (WSS) refers to a set of XML message-level standards designed to ensure the security of various aspects of SOA (service-oriented architecture). Yet, due largely to the inherent ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...