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Oasis to create an XML security standard
News The planned standard will convey information via an XML document to classify and rate the risks of vulnerabilities once they are discovered. The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or Oasis, on Wednesday announced...
[May 28, 2003, 15:56]
MS Office 2007 files fully validate aginst standard XML schemas
Talkback I have used the Office Open XML format files extensivly and also used the XSD schema files that are in the Ecma standard which I downloaded from the Ecma offical standard site. All Microsoft Office 2007 default fileformat written files I created...
[February 28, 2008, 16:49]
Group plans XML standard for biometrics
News One of the largest XML standards groups is hoping that a key Web language will provide a standard way for computers and technology to describe human characteristics. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS...
[March 8, 2002, 11:12]
XML standard approved after three years
News A method of labelling discrete parts of an XML document concluded its tortuous journey toward standardisation with the World Wide Web Consortium's approval of XPointer. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C recommendation that lets authors...
[March 26, 2003, 10:52]
DSML: A Proposal for XML Standards for Messaging Between Components of a Natural Language Dialog System
White Papers This paper proposes using standard XML messaging interfaces between components of natural language dialog systems. They describe a stock trading and information access system, where XML is used to encode speech acts, transactions and retrieved...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
OpenOffice may support OOXML
News OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
News The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. The move came as an ISO committee meeting in Norway attracted protesters, who gathered to...
[April 14, 2008, 13:15]
Altova StyleVision Standard Edition
Downloads Altova StyleVision 2008 Standard Edition is the ultimate visual XML to HTML stylesheet designer for graphically designing stylesheets that render eye-catching HTML output from XML content. In addition to numerous advanced stylesheet design...
[September 19, 2007, 2:12]
Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB
White Papers As XQuery is becoming the standard language for querying XML and relational SQL platform has been recognized as an important platform to store and process XML, the SQL/XML standard is integrating XML query capability into the SQL system by...
[August 17, 2007, 10:21]
Australian apathy results in OOXML 'abstain' vote
News Standards Australia has returned an "abstain" vote on the proposal to adopt the Office Open XML format standard as an international standard. JTC1 is the name given to the ballot administered by the International Organization for Standardization...
[September 3, 2007, 9:18]
Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
News Google has claimed that Microsoft's proposed Office Open XML document standard is unnecessary and should be rolled into the rival OpenDocument Format. Document formats are shifting towards the use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), which...
[February 26, 2008, 10:38]
Office Open XML Overview
White Papers Office Open XML is an open standard (ISO/IEC 29500, ECMA-376 Edition 2) for word-processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets that can be freely implemented by multiple applications on multiple platforms.
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
US report urges slow road to XML
News The General Accounting Office found that, in the absence of any formal governmental policy or standard on XML, federal agencies might want to hold back before adopting the Web standard. While a version of HR-related XML is being worked on by a...
[April 9, 2002, 9:15]
Towards an Industrial Strength SQL/XML Infrastructure
White Papers SQL/XML is a SQL standard that integrates XML with SQL. It introduces the XML datatype as a native SQL datatype and defines XML generation functions in the SQL/XML 2003 standard. This paper presents the design and implementation strategies of the...
[July 25, 2006, 4:44]
Microsoft attacks IBM over ODF
News Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the company is pushing the OpenDocument Format standard to the detriment of Microsoft's own Open XML standard. OpenDocument Format (ODF) is an open standard based on XML, designed to be used in office...
[May 10, 2007, 16:23]
California eyes OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is a standard XML-based file format used by OpenOffice, an open source application program supported by IBM and Sun, among others. Similar to the ODF bills proposed in Texas and Minnesota, California Assembly bill AB...
[March 1, 2007, 8:41]
Microsoft
Talkback The reality is that the Office Open XML standard does not implement 100% of the XML that is produced by Microsoft Office 2007. Therefore, anyone using the so called standard proposed by Microsoft can never be assured of full compliance with Office...
[April 10, 2007, 11:16]
Beyond Lazy XML Parsing
White Papers XML has become the standard format for data representation and exchange in domains ranging from Web to desktop applications. To create the internal pointers, they use constructs supported by the current W3C XML standard.
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Microsoft: IBM masterminded OOXML failure
News Microsoft executives have accused IBM of single-handedly leading an effort to block the software giant from having its Office Open XML standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization.
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
