The big news on the datatypes front is the introduction of union dataypes, which join atomic types and list datatypes. This allows definition of types such as

XML is the eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML, intended to allow the creation and processing of application-specific markup languages. Python makes an excellent language for processing XML data. This document is the reference manual for the Python/XML package, containing several XML module

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This article looks at those changes in the recent Pre-CR draft of W3C XML Schemas that will most effect developers and users. Requirements for data interchange with database systems have been important during W3C XML Schema's development. The recent changes also support markup languages and sche

Boston, MA USA and London, England; October 3, 2000–OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, has expanded its technical process for the development of industrial XML standards. The Consortium recently expanded its bylaws to implement a new model of technical committee organization that, in essen

Finding real-world solutions is critical for any developer that works in Internet time. It is the solutions today that matter most, and this is where most other conferences fall short – they explain a technology, but don't demonstrate it in a real-world context. InsideASP meets this challenge. A

Java Server Pages (JSP) technology uses XML-like tags and scriptlets (written in the Java programming language) to encapsulate the logic that generates the page's content. This example shows how to apply JSP technology to generate graphics described with the SVG syntax.

Complexity has been one criticism which RDF has had difficulty in shaking off. Both the RDF model, and its serialization syntax, have fallen foul of this issue at various points in its development. Efforts to produce a simpler serialization syntax have lead to several alternate proposals, including

Defining relationships between nodes of a tree is always an involved topic. During the 1990s we saw the success of relational databases, tabular data being an extreme solution to defining these relationships. In bringing hierarchical structures back to center stage, XML has revived the linking probl

dbXML is the industry's first Open Source Native XML Database Application Server. It has been designed from the ground up as a complete solution to enterprise-wide XML integration and application provisioning. The dbXML Core Edition is a data management system designed specifically for collecti