Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

Listen to Computerworld’s TechCast: Markup Languages. Podcast duration: 7 minutes. In 1969, three IBM researchers created GML, a formatting language for document publishing. Understood to mean ...

Sun Microsystems is linking two prominent Web development languages--Java and XML--to simplify e-commerce software development and to better position Java against rival technologies. Sun on Monday ...

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a data-management system based on flat files. It is is widely used by small businesses because of its portability and its compatibility with multiple platforms. It ...

XML (extensible markup language), with its potential for helping companies find common ground on which to exchange and interpret data between disparate systems, has started to change the face of ...

For Web programmers, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is not only a lingua franca – it’s the water that floats the boat, the air that holds up the plane. In other words, it’s a free resource ...

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) picks up where HTML leaves off. If you've studied HTML, you've learned the Web's formatting language. To structure content on the Web, you will need to learn XML. In ...

Maintaining a smooth flow of information from one software application to another needn’t be quite the hassle that it once was during upgrades. Just ask the automation engineers at Chevron Global ...

Backed by several industry giants, start-up company Bow Street Software Inc. announced today it is taking initial steps to write open-source specifications for standardizing XML as the lingua franca ...

Publishing software giant Adobe Systems announced Monday that it has acquired Yellow Dragon Software, a small company that specializes in XML tools that will support Adobe's electronic document ...