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Microsoft touts accounting format
News Seizing on an opportunity presented by a string of financial scandals, such as those that hit Enron and WorldCom, Microsoft hopes to generate interest in Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), a file format that right now works best with...
[August 6, 2002, 13:52]
Adobe collects Yellow Dragon
News Yellow Dragon makes two products that help business use XML (Extensible Markup Language), the widely spreading standard for exchanging corporate data among disparate computing systems. Yellow Dragon's other product is a server application for...
[November 11, 2003, 9:10]
Microsoft announces XDocs details
News Office 11 will rely heavily on Extensible Markup Language (XML), the lingua franca of Web services, to record and display data more flexibly. Moore said Microsoft decided to use the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) standard...
[February 10, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft licenses exFAT flash file format
News It also allows for faster file saves on Secure Digital Extended Capacity cards and is more extensible than its predecessor, Microsoft said. Microsoft on Thursday announced a programme to license out the Extended File Allocation Table format, which...
[December 11, 2009, 8:50]
Adobe e-form will target Microsoft
News The as-yet unnamed product, which Adobe plans to introduce next year, allows companies to create and distribute interactive forms using Adobe's portable document format (PDF) and extensible markup language (XML), the fast-spreading standard behind...
[July 15, 2003, 9:23]
How open is the new Office?
News The software giant intends to make Extensible Markup Language (XML) a supported file format -- in addition to existing proprietary formats -- for its upcoming Office 11 desktop software, which is in the hands of about 12,000 beta testers.
[December 16, 2002, 11:50]
Microsoft walks the patent tightrope
News Standards such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), a format for creating structured documents and facilitating Web services, have been embraced by Microsoft and others as a way to ensure the interchange of data between disparate computing systems.
[February 4, 2004, 9:00]
Macromedia stretches Flash offering
News Flex breaks them down into a Macromedia dialect of extensible markup language (XML) that can be read by the Flash Player, the widespread Flash client commonly used to spice up Web pages. Macromedia is set to release on Monday a new server product...
[March 29, 2004, 9:45]
Microsoft readies Office overhaul
News The company is adopting Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a second file format in all Office applications, to enable better data exchange between the productivity suite and back-end software, such as databases.
[October 22, 2002, 8:14]
XBRL standard may prevent market meltdowns
News The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to vote on Wednesday on whether companies will have to submit their financial filings in the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Filings submitted in XBRL use XML data tags to...
[December 16, 2008, 10:58]
Sun: Open source for the masses
News As part of Friday's Openoffice.org announcement, Sun announced that it is making Extensible Markup Language, or XML, the default file format for StarOffice, replacing the suite's former proprietary binary file format.
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
.Net Server's rename hints at delay
News One of the key attributes of .Net Server 2003 will be broad support for Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based Web services. XML, a cousin to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) used to format Web pages, is seen as an important mechanism for...
[August 30, 2002, 15:46]
Microsoft opens up charting program's XML schemas
News The software giant will provide documentation and royalty-free licences for the extensible markup language (XML) schema the diagramming and drawing program uses to describe documents. Microsoft characterised the decision as an effort to expand...
[April 16, 2004, 10:30]
Corel begins XML push
News The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, has emerged as the standard for embedding interactive features into documents. Corel's advantages in the XML market include familiar authoring environments and use of open standards such as Scalable Vector...
[December 11, 2002, 6:36]
Microsoft pulls early Office 2003 beta
News InfoPath, code-named XDocs, uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) to pull together disparate pieces of information from Office documents into a form-like document. Office 2003 supports XML as a second data format, a feature that is expected to...
[February 20, 2003, 7:32]
New software turns Office into collaboration tool
News The product is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), already a popular standard for data integration. Microsoft plans to make XML the main data format for Office 11 applications. Meta Group analyst David Yockelson said XDocs is "powerful...
[October 9, 2002, 7:55]
The XML champs
News In addition, ebXML is serving as a starting point for specific, vertical industry dialects, such as the travel industry's OpenTravel Alliance language, the health care industry's Health Level Seven and the financial industry's eXtensible Business...
[August 23, 2001, 6:30]
Software firms favour e-forms
News The software companies' interest in e-forms also stems from the growing adoption of extensible markup language (XML) as the common language of business data. While InfoPath is expected to be used mainly by employees for internal business processes...
[October 13, 2003, 12:40]
Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML
News There is a whole conversation coming around high-definition photos and Microsoft is presenting another standard around extensible paper specification that is really more related to PDF, which is going to get Adobe particularly excited.
[June 23, 2008, 14:21]
Aesthetics versus practicality
News However, it's very easy for an architect to design a system that's reusable and extensible but that is impractical to implement because the costs are too high. Exchanging data in binary format takes more processor power on both machines, and the...
[February 20, 2003, 10:31]
