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.

I propose a different approach that uses XML (and XML Schema) in concert with Java. My solution will be detailed fully in the next two articles of the series, but I’ll introduce it now.

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.

Microsoft announced the addition of the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 XML Reference Schema to its open and royalty-free documentation and license program that was initially unveiled in November 2003.