It's been an eternal source of debate in IT circles: Can good design overcome the compulsion to simply throw new hardware and systems at a problem? This debate is now front and center in the emerging ...

With the proliferation of information on the Web, the need for standardization of content semantics became desirable. Readers who wanted content delivered in particular formats, and those who wanted ...

In previous articles, I have discussed XML’s value as a data format for Linux users. I have also discussed a wide variety of Linux tools for processing XML. But the data that XML usually represents ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an XML database? XML databases use XML to model and query data. XML is a ...

If today's XML data usage trend were made into a science-fiction movie, XML could star as the new "Blob." But instead of aiming to destroy a large city, this XML blob aims to engulf the world's ...

Open XML,a data format used in Microsoft Corp.'s Office software line has been approved as an international standard— a move aimed at preserving access to documents created with the package for years ...

ASP.NET Core provides excellent support for formatting data, whether it’s output data or data in the request body. When working in ASP.NET Core, your API methods will typically return JSON data, but ...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) provides trading partners with automatic, standardised business document exchange. To process documents, the data needs to be converted to and from different EDI ...

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) remains “more of an anti-Microsoft political statement than an objective technology selection” by users, according to a report released Monday by analysts at Burton Group ...