Listen to Computerworld’s TechCast: Markup Languages. Podcast duration: 7 minutes. In 1969, three IBM researchers created GML, a formatting language for document publishing. Understood to mean ...

Nearly everyone is talking about XML (Extensible Markup Language) these days. But few understand what it's really all about. XML's proponents claim it will cure everything that's wrong with HTML and ...

For Web programmers, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is not only a lingua franca – it’s the water that floats the boat, the air that holds up the plane. In other words, it’s a free resource ...

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a data-management system based on flat files. It is is widely used by small businesses because of its portability and its compatibility with multiple platforms. It ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: XML (the Extensible Markup Language) is a W3C-endorsed standard markup language for documents containing structured information. Its main purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data ...

Incorporating markup languages into software application code can overcome disruptive inter-platform communications barriers, bringing together groups of engineers and disparate technologies.

Sun Microsystems is linking two prominent Web development languages--Java and XML--to simplify e-commerce software development and to better position Java against rival technologies. Sun on Monday ...

The leading Web standards group has released ten draft XML specifications intended to make the Web perform more like a database. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published updates to a group of ...

Publishing software giant Adobe Systems announced Monday that it has acquired Yellow Dragon Software, a small company that specializes in XML tools that will support Adobe's electronic document ...

Sharing information is what the information age is all about – but sharing isn’t often simple. Electronic links with partners, customers and suppliers demand ways of defining information so ...