As indispensable as computers are in electronics design, they have too often failed in this context to support long-term business objectives. To date, there has been scarcely little effort to ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This briefing for managers, first published by Government Technology in 2001, is still a very good introduction to XML for those with limited technical knowledge. March 2005 With rapid ...

XML is defined as EXtensible Markup Language and is designed to describe data and to focus on what data is. In this tutorial you will learn about XML and the difference between XML and HTML. You will ...

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Designers often reuse information: a mission statement may appear in a brochure and an annual report, for example, and product descriptions can be used in paper catalogs and on company Web sites. If ...

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...