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 ...

XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. To be formal about it, XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Practically speaking, XML is a method to structure ...

Since the Internet took off, millions of Websites have been created to offer information, news and services. Web publishing and content management market size grew tremendously. With the wide spread ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsofts Office Open XML format moved a step closer to ...

An XML-based file format developed by Microsoft and standardized by ECMA. Starting with Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML is the default document format for saving applications. See Office file ...

A project has come up at work in which I need to take XML data, and transform it into another specific XML structure. Basically, the first step is to map elements from the original XML to the new XML ...

Microsoft Corp. today said it will work with the Chinese government to craft tools for translating documents between the company’s Open XML and China’s home-brewed Uniform Office Format (UOF). UOF, ...

Microsoft and Novell have announced that Novell will be providing support for the Office Open XML format—the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007—in its Novell-branded version of the ...

Looks like Microsoft is going to win the battle of the file formats in Massachusetts. The commonwealth's latest policy draft (RTF) indicates that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) is an acceptable ...