XML [EXtensible Markup Language] is what its name suggests: a markup language, much like HTML. In fact, XML and HTML are siblings (if you want to think of it that way) in that they are both ...

Because XML provides a universal way of describing data, it has multiple diverse applications. After all, gathering, pushing, pulling, parsing and exploiting data is mostly what IT is about. More than ...

Five years after XML's birth as a W3C recommendation, some of its major players tell about its successes, failures and coming challenges.

Nearly everyone is talking about XML these days. But few understand what it's really about. CNET throws some light on this new markup language for the Web.

While a well-formed document is well-formed because it follows rules defined by the XML spec, a valid document is valid because it matches its document type definition (DTD). The DTD is the ...

Star: XML could become new lingua franca By Mike Ricciuti Staff Writer, CNET News.com November 8, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT In a few short years, a once obscure technology bearing the unremarkable name ...

XML, a way to code documents for easy transfer between applications, is widely seen as a key enabling technology for e-commerce in the future. Today’s HTML-based Web just can’t provide the ...

As the enabling technology for next-generation Web-based applications, XML is both easy and straightforward to learn and use. Unfortunately, the same thing cannot be said about the current state ...

Though XML Schema powerfully expresses an XML document's structure, it has a steep initial learning curve. This article gets you up that hill fast. Author Graham King explains XML Namespaces and ...

A small software-maker has patent rights on parts of the Web language, according to company officials who spoke with TR Executive Web Editor Wade Roush.