There is an ongoing controversy in the XML world about the use of a feature called namespaces. By default, every element in an XML document is assigned to the “empty” namespace, but the document’s ...

Last month, Microsoft announced that the forthcoming Office 12 will save to XML by default and that earlier versions will be retrofitted to work with XML. This week Apple released its podcast-aware ...

A method for identifying XML elements and attributes that have the same name, but different meanings. For example, ADDRESS is a tag that can be used to identify totally different data elements such as ...

Namespaces, that arcane but crucial part of the XML standard, are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services applications vulnerable to hackers, contends Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at KaVaDo, Inc., a New ...

Visual Studio has provided an XML editor that offers IntelliSense for any given XML schema since Visual Studio 2003. Microsoft upgraded this XML editor in Visual Studio 2005. In VS 2003, IntelliSense ...

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 ...

Recommendation: Change the default namespace before the XML Web service is made public. Each XML Web service needs a unique namespace in order for client applications ...