With the proliferation of XML as a new common data format, the problem of managing XML documents has become more critical. New technologies are now available that allow organizations to better manage ...

The federal departments of Homeland Security and Justice recently agreed on a global data-sharing standard that could spur interoperability throughout the public safety community and beyond. The move ...

XML’s emergence did not initially make our lives easier—at best, they did not change much. We quickly started writing our many data formats using angle brackets, which looked neat, but did not make ...

The basic tenet of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to provide loose-coupling for different applications. It is thus imperative that data is produced by and for these applications, and that ...