It took two and a half years, but the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finally released its XML Schema Recommendation. The W3C XML schema defines shared markup vocabularies and the structure of XML ...

If you've been following this series on Builder.com, you already know that XML describes the structure of data and makes no assumptions about what the data it describes actually is, and whether that ...

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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 ...

Eager to get Web services developers to conform to one of its key recommendations, the Web's leading standards body has released a set of tests for XML processors. The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C) ...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document. In this blog entry, I will look at using Apache XMLBeans‘s tool called inst2xsd to also generate ...