We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...

Dan Cwenar is the chief operating officer for Access Data Corporation of Pittsburgh, a financial services industry software and consulting company whose clients include Invesco of Denver and Charles ...

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.

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

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 ...

For Web programmers, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is not only a lingua franca – it’s the water that floats the boat, the air that holds up the plane. In other words, it’s a free resource ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

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 ...

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