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 ...

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 grammar ...

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 ...

Have you ever played the “spot the development platform” game? In my version of it, points are awarded to players who correctly guess what programming language an application is written in, simply by ...

If you don't already, start thinking about designing your Web pages with a single, cohesive theme. You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side ...

Several SQL-to-XML conversion and translation tools are available. The Enterprise and Professional versions of the XMLSpy products from Altova.com can produce an XML schema from a relational database.

In the early days of using Java in conjunction with XML, it often seemed more difficult than it should be to use the Java programming language with the XML markup language. Besides the non-trivial and ...

Criminal justice leaders have long envisioned how technology can expand and improve information sharing, only to be frustrated in their efforts. Now the justice community has extensible markup ...

XML is a powerful and flexible way to encode data, but designingXML “schema” (the rules by which data is encoded) is oftendifficult. Verifying that your XML documents conform to the schemacan be ...