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 ...

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

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 ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has halted work on the second version of the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), and has instead redirected its energies to the next version, HTML 5.

It's not on most fund advisors' radar screens just yet, but really simple syndication (RSS) technology, a form of XBRL (extensible markup language) that is still in its infancy, is beginning to make ...

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 ...

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

Systems Engineering Associates Corp. (SEA CORP),* Middletown, Rhode Island, is awarded a $26,643,618 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only contract for services to develop, upgrade and apply the ...

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 ...