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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second-generation .NET Framework builds on the tools of the first to provide better, more standards-compliant XML data validation. Technology Toolbox: XML, .NET Framework 2.0 Version 1.x of the ...

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) ...

maybe just use an empty sequence as one of the choices?<BR><BR>XML schema have the smell of unneeded complexity. if you at all have the option check out Relax NG or one of the other alternatives.

XML building blocks XML building block technologies represent the foundation upon which the rest of the XML world is built. An understanding of many of these key technologies proves vital to employing ...

In this post, we will talk about how to validate XML against XSD in Notepad++. An XML (eXtensible Markup Language) file is a markup file that consists of a set of rules for encoding documents in both ...