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Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about best practice implementation of XML - Extensible Markup Language.
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Articles and resources about best practice implementation of XML - eXtensible Markup Language.
- Dot-gov reforms clash with transparency objectives
- By Joseph Marks. NextGov, 6 March 2012. "Among the several thousand federal websites likely to be shuttered as part of the government's massive dot-gov reform plan, count this one: XML.gov.
Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is an extremely simple Web document language that is especially responsive to search queries and easy for other computer programs to read..."
- 1 Easy Way to Audit your XML Sitemap
- by David Malmborg. SEO Blog, April 25, 2011. Your XML site map must be perfect - you don't want 404 pages, 301 or 302 redirects or URLs with different canonicals. Provides a working example using Excel and The Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.
- Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published
- W3C, 3 December 2009. "The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. he primary goal of this document is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, telephony, mixed initiative conversations, and recording and presentation of a variety of media formats including digitized audio, and digitized video..."
- Quality of Design (QOD) Tool
- National Institute of Standards and Technology. "The XML Schema Quality of Design Tool (also called the QOD Tool) assists in consistently using XML Schema for the specification of information..."
- NIST releases XML design tool
- By Joab Jackson. Government Computer News, 23 May 2008. "The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a tool for checking whether your Extensible Markup Language schema meets guidelines for well-formed schemata..."
- U.S. votes 'Aye' for modified Office Open XML standard
- By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 17 March 2008. "The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML standard for business documents. The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Executive Board is the U.S. Technical Advisory Group for ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, and casts this country’s vote on information technology standards. It is comprised of 17 voting members, including three from the federal government: The Homeland Security and Defense departments and the National Institute of Standards and Technology..."
- Using XML for Web Site Managment: Lessons Learned Report
- by Jim Costello, Donna S. Canestraro, J. Ramón Gil-Garcia, and Derek Werthmuller. Center for Technology in Government, 18 January 2008. "This report is based on the lessons learned from CTG's XML Testbed. The success of the Testbed rested on the enthusiastic participation of five New York State (NYS) agencies who committed to extensive hours of workshops, training, and prototype development..."
- U.S. approves Office Open XML standard, with some reservations
- By William Jackson. Government Computer News, 4 September 2007. "The U.S. voting representative on international information technology standards has voted for conditional approval of the Office Open XML standard, which would create a new standard for creating and viewing digital office documents..."
- SSC pushes for improved XML interoperability
- The bulk of this "XML governance" exercise is to be done by a yet-to-be-appointed advisory group, By Stephen Bell. Computerworld, 20 July, 2007. "... The State Service Commission plans a survey of all XML schemas currently in use in government agencies and what they're used for, and will follow this with a framework to achieve better interoperability in the use of XML in New Zealand government, says SSC spokesman Jason Ryan..."
- NIST releases IRS schema checker
- By Joab Jackson. Government Computer News, 18 April 2007. "The National Institute of Standards and Technology has posted an online tool for testing Extensible Markup Language schemas against the Internal Revenue Service's Naming and Design Rules..."
- IRD plans XBRL adoption
- XBRL is an XML-based standard for sharing financial information, By David Watson. Computerworld, 11 December, 2006. "The Inland Revenue Department is considering adopting XBRL (extensible business reporting language) and is seeking a taxonomy editor and XBRL processor, with a view to developing internal XBRL capabilities..."
- W3C Renews Commitment to XML
- W3C, 12 October 2006. "W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. "W3C created, developed and continues to maintain the enormously successful XML family of specifications for supporting and interchanging text, graphics, protocols, voice, music, math, programming, user interfaces, Web services and more," said Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead. The XML Activity's nine groups maintain stability and backwards compatibility, make improvements to encourage interoperability, and bring new communities to XML..."
- JavaScript and XML: Part 3
- By David Flanagan. Webreference.com, 2 October 2006. "This week we conclude our three part series. Topics include XML and Web Services and E4X: ECMAScript for XML. Note that while E4X includes language syntax and APIs for working with XML namespaces, the examples don't illustrate this syntax (for simplicity)."
- JavaScript and XML: Part 2
- By David Flanagan. Webreference.com, 25 September 2006. "This is the continuation of a three part series. This week we look at transforming XML with XSLT, querying XML with XPath, evaluating XPath Expressions, serializing XML and more..."
- JavaScript and XML
- By David Flanagan. Webreference.com, 18 September 2006. "The most important feature of the Ajax web application architecture is its ability to script HTTP with the XMLHttpRequest object, which was covered in Chapter 20. The X in "Ajax" stands for XML, however, and for many web applications, Ajax's use of XML-formatted data is its second most important feature. This chapter explains how to use JavaScript to work with XML data..."
This category last updated: 8 March 2012