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  • W3C issues compact XML standard

    Posted March 10, 2011 - 9:27 pm

    The EXI standard reduces demands for network utilization, processing power, and energy when processing XML.

  • Review

    Compare XML Files With Project: Merge

    Posted October 5, 2010 - 7:58 pm

    Project: Merge (£19, 30-day free trial) is a file comparison utility designed to compare XML files and only show you the differences which matter. People who work with files in XML format, such as programmers or database administrators, could find it very useful.

  • Real-Time ID Service boosts B2B commerce

    Posted May 13, 2010 - 8:04 pm

    XML API and cloud service paired to streamline site visits and custom-tailor content based on who is visiting the site.

  • XML workflow spec finalized

    Posted May 11, 2010 - 12:16 pm

    W3C offers standard framework for composing processes and automating computations

  • QuickStudy: Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)

    Posted October 5, 2009 - 2:13 pm

    XBRL is a version of XML defined to meet the requirements of business and financial information. With XBRL, unique identifying tags are applied to financial data items.

  • Google to Microsoft: Support SVG

    Posted October 4, 2009 - 7:51 pm

    The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) specification may be experiencing a renaissance, but it would sure be helpful if Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser supported SVG, a Google official argued at a technical conference on Friday.

  • Microsoft Betrayed i4i, Say Court Documents

    Posted September 14, 2009 - 8:03 am

    Microsoft marketed i4i's XML software to potential customers even as it planned to drive the small Toronto company out of business by infringing its patent, according to documents i4i filed with an appeals court.

  • Microsoft stabbed i4i in the back with Word, developer claims

    Posted September 9, 2009 - 3:31 pm

    Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers even as it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed with an appeals court.

  • REST vs. SOAP-based WS-* Web services duel dismissed

    Posted June 1, 2009 - 10:24 am

    There are perceptions afoot of a Web services war pitting SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services. But an official at Microsoft, which has spearheaded development of WS-* specifications, does not see the situation as being all that much of a conflict.

  • Survey: Most companies ready for SEC conversion

    Posted May 8, 2009 - 10:38 am

    At least 340 of the estimated 500 public companies required by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin filing financial data in the XBRL format in June have made the conversion, according to a survey from XBRL US, a nonprofit standards group.

  • Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 2

    Posted April 10, 2009 - 10:13 am

    So, last week I set myself a problem: Use Microsoft Excel to capture Twitter messages that mention the word "rovio", pretending that I worked for the company that makes the Rovio Wi-Fi-controlled camera and I wanted to see what people were saying about it. After finishing last week's column I had to drop the project for a couple of days while I put out other fires. When I returned to it I discovered that things weren't working as I had expected.

  • Review

    XMLFox Helps You Create Clean XML -- For Free

    Posted April 6, 2009 - 8:12 am

    XML is a powerful and flexible way to encode data, but designing XML "schema" (the rules by which data is encoded) is often difficult. Verifying that your XML documents conform to the schema can be difficult, as well. XMLFox XML Editor is a nice freeware program that greatly simplifies these tasks.

  • Analyzing Twitter with Excel, Part 1

    Posted April 3, 2009 - 11:26 am

    Excel's XML maps are a powerful tool if you can figure out how they work so this week we're going to do exactly that. Or at least, something like that.

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    Techtorials - An experiment with an electronic sheet of foolscap

    Posted March 26, 2009 - 2:48 pm

    I spend a lot of time drawing pictures to explain technical concepts. How can that medium - the quick paper-based sketch - be best turned into a web format? Here is what we have come up with. We call them techtorials.

  • Free the Data: eGov and Open Standards

    Posted March 12, 2009 - 1:33 pm

    When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public federal information.

  • Pet Peeves - XML

    Posted October 27, 2008 - 7:34 am

    Pet peeves about XML from a self-confessed XML fanboy.

  • Startup Linxter developing 'Internet service bus'

    Posted October 16, 2008 - 3:49 pm

    A startup called Linxter is set to launch a hosted messaging platform that will enable any Internet-addressable device, application or system to communicate with another.

  • Liberty releases guidelines for data management, handling

    Posted June 23, 2008 - 10:05 am

    The Liberty Alliance has released the first versions of two key frameworks for how businesses can share and protect sensitive data in their networks.

  • XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 2

    Posted June 2, 2008 - 1:50 pm

    This is the second part of a two part article about XML. The first part talked about ways to benefit from XML without taking on too much heartache in the sphere of application configuration files, machine-oriented data exchange, that sort of thing. In this part, I concentrate on using XML effectively in document-centric application areas.

  • XML: How to get the benefits without the heartache, part 1

    Posted June 2, 2008 - 12:50 pm

    Much has been written and continues to be written about the "angle bracket tax". Now let us start by calling a spade a spade. XML is not a silver bullet and if you unilaterally spray it over your application space you can get into trouble. No amount of pretty-printing an XML file containing a SOAP message will make it look pretty to an application developer's eyes. No amount of pretty-printing a complex ANT script or a CFML script will make the conditional logic that these things often contain, easy to read or easy to process programmatically.

  • The opposite of hierarchy

    Posted June 26, 2002 - 11:00 pm

    Despite XML's inherent leanings towards hierarchies within document structures, no standards have been established for creating hierarchies of element type declarations.

  • The Real Cost of XML Tags

    Posted April 4, 2002 - 12:00 am

    XML tags cost money. As the necessary code becomes more complex, it costs more money. But where does the complexity come from and how can it be mitigated from the overall design?
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