REDMOND, Wash. – April 1, 2008 — After more than 14 months of intensive review, a Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and the International ...

Sun Microsystems is contributing the XML file format specification utilized in the OpenOffice.org 1.0 project to a new technical committee recently formed by the OASIS standards body. The new ...

Brian also mentions that he’s planning on blogging frequently about the new format over the next year and a half. In fact, if you head on over to his blog you can already find an informative entry on ...

Believe it or not, there were more announcements at MacWorld than just Apple's iPhone. Microsoft, too, had a bit of news. Microsoft officials announced on January 9 that the next version of Office for ...

ODF was originally developed as an XML-based format to enable universal access to documents across platforms and software from different providers, the Document Foundation writes . Meanwhile, it has ...

LibreOffice accuses Microsoft of using complex XML formatting as a lock-in strategy. The open-source community criticizes Microsoft's tactics in transitioning Windows 10 users to Windows 11.

XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ ...

When I wrote this blog blasting the massive bulk of XML, our own John Carroll responded with a defense of XML for some situations. John and I both agree that XML should not be used to handle large ...

The Apache Jakarta site is home to many well-known Java open source projects, including Tomcat, Ant, and log4j. A lesser-known subproject of Jakarta is Jakarta Commons, a repository of reusable Java ...

I've got a rather messy XML file and a complex XSLT. The XML file describes several folders and the documents they contain. Unfortunately, I cannot include the document's language directly in the XML, ...