With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

Figure 3. Big XML files. Click on thumbnail to view full-sized image. Eight years since its inception, XML has already taken off as an open, semi-structured data format for storing data as well as ...

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 ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company ...