XML is a language designed to standardize the communication at the message level. As shown in Figure 2a, the AGML schema describes a precise structural relationship between <spot> and its attributes.

OPEN PLATFORMWhen the XML schemas for FIXML were released this past January by the FIX Protocol Ltd. (FPL), the center for XML and Web Services Technologies at City University of New York (CUNY), ...

With the XML schema, Web developers will be able to better define strings of characters in a document, for example, whether a number is an integer or a date.

News Can schema agnostic databases boost Web services? By Rich Seeley July 2, 2002 When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the ...

The World Wide Web Consortium standards group has approved the XML Schema specification. If the standard is adopted by businesses, it will allow them to communicate and conduct transactions ...

Microsoft is often criticized for the proprietary technology tactics it uses to protect its desktop software dominance. Freely licensing the schema for Office 2003’s XML implementation is a step ...

In an earlier blog entry , I wrote about using Trang to generate XML Schema from an XML source document.

Designed to share application function across networks, the Web services support in V6 includes the support for XML schema, Web Services Definition Language and Simple Object Access Protocol ...

The XML tags that define the elements of a document are collectively called a schema. Microsoft has yet to disclose the proprietary dialect - or underlying schema - of the XML used in Office 2003.

XML support also allows Office to become a client for viewing and manipulating data from Web services and from complex enterprise applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) software.