XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes ...

Back in September, Jack Vaughan went out on a limb (or is that branch?) and predicted the eventual fading of XML, long the lingua franca of the Web services age. (See "XML on the wane? Say it isn't so ...

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 ...