The XML file format is primarily based on the notion of "metadata." Metadata is, as the name suggests, data about data. XML provides a tag format that allows content providers to "wrap" data in ...

Using XML and Zip is not a unique approach, however, given that open-source Office competitor OpenOffice (sponsored by Sun) has been using an XML-based file format and Zip compression to store files.

In a move that could bring a chorus of both cheers and jeers, Microsoft Corp. recently announced its commitment to adopt XML technology as the default file format in the next version of Office ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The first draft of the Office Open XML file format ...

Files that do not conform to the XML schemes are therefore easy to detect. Because of the standards defined by the ASAM (Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems) it is ...

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 ...

Of this patent in particular, the spokesperson said it, "uniquely addresses a method for creating a document in an XML file format, which enables a published XSD (“XML Schema Definition”) to ...