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 ...

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document. In this blog entry, I will look at using Apache XMLBeans‘s tool called inst2xsd to also generate ...

should it reject any XML file that has a different encoding? Situation: We have an XSD with encoding set to one value and we can validate XML files with different encodings successfully (our XSD has ...

XML Schema is being deployed in applications designed to help oil and gas companies reduce errors and redundant data input between their legacy systems and a federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ...

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Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such ...

Web services standardize the format (XML) and the protocol (SOAP) for application-to-application communication. Such standardization spurs software vendors to create quality applications with focused ...