XML is a language designed to standardize the communication at the message level. As shown in Figure 2a, the AGML schema describes a precise structural relationship between <spot> and its attributes.

In an earlier blog entry , I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document.

The World Wide Web Consortium standards group has approved the XML Schema specification. If the standard is adopted by businesses, it will allow them to communicate and conduct transactions ...

With the XML schema, Web developers will be able to better define strings of characters in a document, for example, whether a number is an integer or a date.

In part 1 of a series of articles Dennis Sosnoski that look at the mismatch between XML Schema and web service data bindings looks at simple data types and the problems they create.

Translate between XML documents and native Java objects Use tightly-coupled RPC-style (Remote Procedure Call) Web services Use document-style Web services that communicate in more loosely coupled ...

Microsoft is often criticized for the proprietary technology tactics it uses to protect its desktop software dominance. Freely licensing the schema for Office 2003’s XML implementation is a step ...

Designed to share application function across networks, the Web services support in V6 includes the support for XML schema, Web Services Definition Language and Simple Object Access Protocol ...