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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft popped out a rather unexpected press release: "Microsoft Announces Availability of Open and Royalty-Free License for Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas". Read the press ...

The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) of the National Retail Federation (NRF) has announced the initial public release of the Time Punch schema and version 2.0 of the Customer schema.

Visual Studio has provided an XML editor that offers IntelliSense for any given XML schema since Visual Studio 2003. Microsoft upgraded this XML editor in Visual Studio 2005. In VS 2003, IntelliSense ...

The IRS issued a FATCA News and Information bulletin confirming that the International Data Exchange Service (IDES) is ...

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas and accompanying documentation. The Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas enable organizations of all sizes to utilize industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) ...

Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See "XML on the wane? Say it isn't so ...

The definition of an XML document, which identifies the XML tags and includes the rules for their interrelationships; for example, there must be at least one B tag within every tag A, or there can ...