IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language.

XML, the metalanguage that is used for defining data elements on a Web page and business-to-business documents, is continuing to boom. Its now six years since the introduction of the XML spec, and now ...

COMMENTARY -- The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It's the next software development ...

Imagine you work for a smaller manufacturer that decides to digitize its product-development process to make it more efficient. To keep costs down, the company wants to use a standard, open language ...

The aura of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has lured members of the US-based Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), in conjunction with SIIA's Financial Information Services Division ...

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 ...

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...

To make it easier to measure the security of an information technology product or system, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA ...