Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...

Have you ever played the “spot the development platform” game? In my version of it, points are awarded to players who correctly guess what programming language an application is written in, simply by ...

If you don't already, start thinking about designing your Web pages with a single, cohesive theme. You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side ...

While a well-formed document is well-formed because it follows rules defined by the XML spec, a valid document is valid because it matches its document type definition (DTD). The DTD is the grammar ...

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 ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...

Orbeon's engineers constantly work with bleeding-edge XML and J2EE technologies and frequently publish papers and articles. They are the developers of Model 2X and XPL. These technologies are ...

XML is a powerful and flexible way to encode data, but designingXML “schema” (the rules by which data is encoded) is oftendifficult. Verifying that your XML documents conform to the schemacan be ...

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML and ...