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US Report: Adobe proposes graphics markup language to the W3C
News The PGML (Precision Graphics Markup Language) proposal was submitted to the standards-making body earlier this week by Adobe, along with IBM, Netscape and Sun Microsystems. PGML, which is based on Adobe's PostScript and Portable Document Format...
[April 16, 1998, 10:55]
US Report: W3C acknowledges Vector Markup Language proposal
News The World Wide Web Consortium yesterday formally acknowledged the submission of a Vector Markup Language proposal that will enable users to cut and paste vector graphics across applications without loss of quality.
[May 29, 1998, 10:53]
WML to XHTML Migration
White Papers "The following document describes the evolution from Wireless Markup Language (WML) 1.x to Extensible Markup Language Mobile Profile (XHTML MP), and is intended for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) developers who are creating mobile Internet...
[December 10, 2006, 4:33]
XML 3: Will XML make our everyday lives easier?
News XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a language that can be used to structure data in order to make it far easier to manipulate and exchange between applications. In the mid-1980s a powerful and complex language called SGML (Standard Generalised...
[November 10, 1999, 11:02]
Java XML Digital Signatures
White Papers Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology is now an integral part of web-based business applications. XML signature, XML encryption, XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and XML Access Control Markup...
[September 27, 2006, 1:00]
A Data Model for Indexing and Searching XML Documents
White Papers The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) was defined for the purpose of document structure description. Extensible Markup Language (XML) was defined as a subset of SGML. Specification is given in UML, and implementation in Java programming...
[November 5, 2008, 0:01]
XML 1: What is XML by the way? A look at the Web "Lingua Franca"
News XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. It is a subset of SGML, Standard Generalised Markup language, and was designed by the W3C to make it easier for Internet users to interchange structured documents.
[November 10, 1999, 11:01]
Microsoft and Sun in new clash
News The Extensible Markup Language, or XML, which has evolved as the standard way to share data over the Internet, is a Worldwide Web Consortium standard. This time the battle is over shaping standards for Extensible Markup Language space.
[December 13, 2000, 8:35]
W3C investigates threat to HTML
News With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium has launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the Web's standard markup language. As previously reported, the W3C conceived the...
[September 25, 2003, 13:00]
Standards group recommends XHTML 1.0
News XHTML 1.0 is the result of rewriting HTML 4.0 -- the markup language behind millions of Web pages -- as an Extensible Markup Language application. By adopting a language that incorporates both HTML and XML, Web content developers are essentially...
[January 28, 2000, 10:13]
The push behind Microsoft's Office moves
News But unlike Hypertext Markup Language tags, which are universal, XML tags can be customised by developers, and they need to communicate with software that reads them. Microsoft announced that starting 5 December, customers and partners will be able...
[December 3, 2003, 13:50]
OASIS enlarges specification tent
News OASIS (the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Monday said it will create a technical committee to advance the Data Centre Markup Language. A separate group, called the Data Centre Markup Language Organisation...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
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]
Web forms standard makes slow progress
News The technology, based on the digital document lingua franca Extensible Markup Language (XML), is a way of building online forms to be more flexible than current Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)-based documents.
[August 5, 2003, 15:10]
XML standard approved after three years
News Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C recommendation that lets authors create their own task or industry-specific markup language for more flexible and searchable digital documents. A method of labelling discrete parts of an XML document...
[March 26, 2003, 10:52]
How does XML measure up?
News And there was this thing called SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), which had been around for decades and seemed to have a lot of the missing pieces for what people wanted to do on the Web. They needed a new format for Internet-connected...
[September 24, 2003, 14:05]
How open is the new Office?
News Unlike HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) tags, which are universal, XML tags can be customised by developers and so need to be communicated to the software that reads them. The software giant intends to make Extensible Markup Language (XML) a...
[December 16, 2002, 11:50]
IBM accused of lifting privacy language
News According to the company, Synomos worked with computer giant IBM from June 2001 to February 2002 to create a standard for writing corporate privacy policies based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), a protocol for exchanging data among computing...
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
US Report: Netscape says source code giveaway a hit
News Among the enhancements to the Communicator groupware suite, which includes the Navigator browser: an eXtensible Markup Language parser, developed by Internet programmer James Clark, enabling Navigator to display Web pages created using both the...
[July 14, 1998, 11:05]
Oracle unveils weapons against IBM, Microsoft
News The new release of Oracle 9i database will better handle XML (Extensible Markup Language) data, a Web standard for data exchange that lets companies construct e-commerce and new Web services applications, said Oracle executives.
[November 30, 2001, 16:13]
