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OASIS Reports On XML For Business
News On top of the proposed document formats, the OASIS UBL group has released diagrams based on the unified modeling language (UML), a standard for software development, that give software engineers tools to build applications using XML documents.
[January 29, 2003, 10:18]
XML Trust Services
White Papers Using standard XML toolkits instead of proprietary third-party software, developers can use S2ML to make trust information completely portable, travelling with XML documents for business transactions across multiple Web sites.
[February 5, 2004, 21:13]
The Push Behind Microsoft's Office Moves
News Microsoft has made extensive XML support one of the key selling points for Office 2003, with the widely adopted standard promising more fluid exchange of data between Office documents and enterprise computing systems.
[December 3, 2003, 13:50]
Adobe Collects Yellow Dragon
News Adobe will incorporate the registry software in future server products, said Chris Ethier, senior product manager for Adobe, to provide an integrated way for customers to track XML-enabled documents created in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF...
[November 11, 2003, 9:10]
OK, So How Do We Store XML?
News However, the lack of industry standards for storing XML documents means near-zero interoperability between various vendor products. Further, storage and processing problems cause system performance issues or meaningless search results when...
[March 6, 2003, 9:34]
XML Spec Moves Ahead Despite Gripes
News XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is a widely adopted syntax for creating documents that are more easily read by computers. While critics contend that XML 1.0 documents using that character will suffer if the version 1.1 changes are recommended...
[October 17, 2002, 16:48]
Office 12 To 'bring XML To The Masses'
News Microsoft pledged that the shift to XML will decrease the size of many individual files and make documents created in its Office products more resistant to corruption. Numoto said that by allowing documents to be saved in a manner that resembles an...
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
New Software Turns Office Into Collaboration Tool
News Rather than use multiple tools to input the data, a salesperson "could create a hyperdocument or form to input that information once and take that XML (and use it) as the business defines," said Scott Bishop, Office product manager.
[October 9, 2002, 7:55]
IBM Compounds Its XML Toolset
News The third new part of the toolkit provides support for XML, XML Schema and XPath in Java, so that individual parts of compound documents can be extracted and dealt with individually. The compound document editor allows you to create XML documents...
[May 9, 2005, 17:30]
IBM Incorporates XML Into Content Management
News IBM plans to spice up its content management software with XML technology that makes the storage and retrieval of corporate documents quicker and more flexible. Also, when two companies merge, there is usually a need to reconcile how both companies...
[July 27, 2004, 12:50]
W3C Lathers Up Soap Standard
News It also has a number of XML-oriented enhancements that will make it easier to manipulate data formatted as XML documents, the W3C said. Soap, along with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), is...
[May 8, 2003, 10:07]
FrontPage Gets XML, Loses 'messy' HTML
News As with other portions of the upcoming Office 2003 family of software, the biggest changes in FrontPage revolve around Extensible Markup Language (XML), the rapidly gaining standard for sharing data among disparate computer systems.
[June 10, 2003, 13:43]
Report Backs PDF Variant For Long-term Archiving
News Although the report addresses many rival document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), it highlights two Microsoft formats in its conclusion as being worth monitoring in the future: the XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Office Open...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats at Ecma International and is in the process of seeking certification with the ISO, or the International Organization for Standardization.
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Group Aims To Strengthen Web Services
News WS-Reliability builds on top of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), one of the fundamental Web services protocols that defines how XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents are transported over a network.
[January 9, 2003, 8:26]
OOXML Debacle - Time To Take Away ECMA's Toys?
Blog Comment To Produce a formal Standard for office productivity documents which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats Produce a standard which is fully compatible with the Office Open XML Formats, including full and comprehensive documentation...
[March 5, 2008, 13:45]
US Patent And Trademark Office Electronic Filing System
White Papers The USPTO has based its electronic filing and business communication initiatives on Extensible Markup Language (XML)-tagged documents and has developed standard formats for applications and most applicant/USPTO correspondence received and sent by...
[January 16, 2004, 3:48]
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]
PDF Forms To Add Barcodes
News Adobe also announced the release of a test version of Adobe Designer, a new product announced last year for creating forms that combine PDF and XML (Extensible Markup Language), the fast-growing standard for exchanging data between disparate...
[March 8, 2004, 9:00]
Novell To Support Microsoft Office Documents
News By January, Novell said, users of the OpenOffice word processor will be able to read documents saved in the Office Open XML format, the default setting for Microsoft's recently released Office 2007 suite.
[December 5, 2006, 9:36]
