Simple text messages, readable and writable by people and computers, live at the core of every successful Internet application. XML seeks to grow the expressive power of these texts while preserving ...

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When Excelon Corp. disclosed plans for its Extensible Information Server (XIS) XML database to support Oracle 9i, the company's Coco Jaenicke was often asked an important question: Why would one ...

COMMENTARY -- The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It's the next software development ...