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Intel's XML Software Suite Improves XML Performance by 200%

XML data descriptions can be exhaustive, often creating performance and scalability challenges for the enterprises. The Intel XML Software Suite delivers outstanding XML processing performance, great scalability across multi-processing environments and easy integration into the existing XML applications, providing higher return on your XML and SOA investments.

Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

i-Technology Viewpoint: The Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

i-Technology Viewpoint: The Performance Woe of Binary XML

Since its inception, XML has been criticized for the overhead it introduces into the enterprise infrastructure. Business data encoded in XML takes five to 10 times more bandwidth to transmit in the network and proportionally more disk space to store. While most agree that verbosity is inherent to XML's way of encoding information (e.g., extensive use of tags and pointy brackets), the explanation of XML's perceived performance issue remains inconclusive. A popular belief is that since XML is human-readable text, it has to be slow and inefficient. And by the same token, proponents of binary XML seem to suggest that a compact encoding format, most noticeably the binary XML, would automatically lead to better processing performance.

Two Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Drafts Published: Format 1.0; Evaluation

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group published two Working Drafts today: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0 and Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation. The former specifies the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) format. EXI is a very compact representation for the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Information Set that is intended to simultaneously optimize performance and the utilization of computational resources. The EXI format uses a hybrid approach drawn from the information and formal language theories, plus practical techniques verified by measurements, for entropy encoding XML information. Using a relatively simple algorithm, which is amenable to fast and compact implementation, and a small set of data types, it reliably produces efficient encodings of XML event streams.

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen XML Editor 9.3

Syncro Soft has updated Oxygen XML Editor (and Oxygen XML Author) to version 9.3. The update's main feature is archive-editing support. Users can extract, validate, edit and process the XML data in OpenDocument files and other ZIP-based archives. The software also supports transformations using XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery on files inside ZIP-based archives and users can compare and merge archived files. It works with OOXML, ODF, JAR and other zip-based archives. Oxygen XML Editor and XML Author are cross-platform, working on Windows, Linux/Unix and Eclipse, in addition to the Mac platform. Oxygen XML Editor costs $300 for a professional license while XML Author costs $180. There are also enterprise and education licenses and a 30-day trial is available.

Last Call: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

The XML Processing Model Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their inputs and produce zero or more XML documents as their outputs. Comments are welcome through 26 September. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

Open XML Format SDK

The 2007 Microsoft® Office system introduces a new file format that is based on XML called Open XML Formats. Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 all use these formats as the default file format. Open XML formats are useful for developers because they are an open standard and are based on well-known technologies: ZIP and XML. Microsoft provides a library for accessing these files as part of the WinFX technologies in the System.IO.Packaging namespace. The Open XML Format SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Easylabel 5 Platinum XML Monitor from Tharo Systems Inc.

Tharo Systems has introduced a new version of its Easylabel software that includes XML support for SAP enterprise management systems. Easylabel 5 Platinum's XML Monitor will watch a file directory or TCP/IP port and will automatically print your RFID or bar-code labels when a compatible XML file is received. This feature provides a direct connection to SAP or any other application capable of generating a properly formatted XML file. It provides seamless printing of RFID or bar-code labels from supply chain or manufacturing software. A free trial edition is available for download from Tharo's Web site.

The XML Technology Certification Committee Announces a New Certification for XQuery and XML DB Technical Expertise

The XML Technology Certification Committee today announced the worldwide release of the "XML Master Professional Database Administrator" exam, certifying technical professionals in XQuery and XML DB.

The XML Technology Certification Committee Announces a New Certification for XQuery and XML DB Technical Expertise

PRNewswire/ -- The XML Technology Certification Committee today announced the worldwide release of the "XML Master Professional Database Administrator" exam, certifying technical professionals in XQuery and XML DB.

The XML Technology Certification Committee Announces a New Certification for XQuery and XML DB Technical Expertise

PRNewswire/ -- The XML Technology Certification Committee today announced the worldwide release of the "XML Master Professional Database Administrator" exam, certifying technical professionals in XQuery and XML DB.

Minimize XML Performance Challenges and Boost Productivity

Today’s applications rely on data feeds from many sources, using technologies that are based on the use of XML. XML data descriptions can be complex often creating performance and scalability challenges for the enterprises. Efficient XML processing is the cornerstone of almost every Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment, regardless of the language or data center environment.

Wish XML a happy birthday

XML has been around for 10 years, and to celebrate, the W3C is hosting a public greeting card. Post your XML greetings today and tell a story about how you first learned about XML. Do you use it all the time? Did XML save your life? The stories can be anonymous and will be stored forever. You have until 31 December 2008, to submit your greeting.

Deal with XML parsing errors in Java APIs

With the ease of XML parsing in the newer Javaâ„¢ language APIs, from JAXP to JAXB to JAX-WS, XML parsing has become foundational to Java programming. But with the abstractions and higher-level APIs comes an apparent loss of control over the fine-grained interactions between a parser and your XML data. This typically leads to more errors or worse, a complete halt of parsing when even the smallest problem arises. Fortunately, the Simple API for XML (SAX) still provides an easy-to-use means of dealing with errors and you can access that mechanism even when you don't use SAX directly.

How to Rapidly Enable High Speed Parsing of XML Files

XML serves as the standard for transporting data through a business process or between disparate applications. XML formatted messages and files continue to expand, however, resulting in significant performance slow downs and memory overloads. Discover how to eliminate the common errors associated with the growing number of XML files.

How to Rapidly Enable High Speed Parsing of XML Files - Vendor Webcast

XML serves as the standard for transporting data through a business process or between disparate applications. XML formatted messages and files continue to expand, however, resulting in significant performance slow downs and memory overloads. Discover how to eliminate the common errors associated with the growing number of XML files.

The XML Technology Certification Committee Announces a New Certification for XQuery and XML DB Technical Expertise

The XML Technology Certification Committee Announces a New Certification for XQuery and XML DB Technical Expertise

Software AG Expands the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with New Discovery Edition

SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. Based on Software AG's global reseller agreement with Relativity Technologies, the Discovery Edition can be used to document and analyze existing code bases - including Cobol, PL/I, RPG, Visual Basic, C/C++ and Java - in order to eliminate software deficiencies, optimize application performance and enable subsequent reuse of existing code. Key features of the Discovery Edition include code analytics and visualization, code refactoring, business rules identification and extraction, and a collaborative knowledgebase for managing software artifacts.

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

Fortify Software Inc.: Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk; New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code

Quark acquires In.vision for XML document handling

Quark on Thursday announced its acquisition of In.vision Research, a Florida-based software firm that develops the Microsoft Word for XML authoring tool, allowing the two companies to tightly integrate XML document creation in QuarkXpress. Neither company mentioned how much the purchase cost Quark, but it is said to be a boon for the design software company, since In.vision's client base includes over 200 financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and several government-level clients.

LSI Tarari Content Processors Drive Down Power Consumption for Demanding XML Applications

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation today announced that it will demonstrate the power-saving benefits of utilizing hardware-based XML accelerators in conjunction with multi-core processors at the Intel Developer Forum, August 19-21 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, Calif. XML is the dominant transactional data format used in enterprise applications, SOA and Web Services. The use of XML acceleration points the way to significant reductions in data center power consumption, which is forecasted to double in the next five years.

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