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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quark acquires XML authoring company

Quark on Thursday announced that it has acquired In.vision Research, makers of Xpress Author for Microsoft Word. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Quark acquires XML authoring company

Quark on Thursday announced that it has acquired In.vision Research, makers of Xpress Author for Microsoft Word. Details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

In.vision Utilizes Open XML Technology for Improved Pharmaceutical Documents

This week at the 44th Annual Drug Information Association (DIA) Meeting, In.vision Research Corporation, a market leader for Enterprise XML Authoring solutions, announced new products that leverage the Open XML standard to improve regulatory document processes.

Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester

Most of the time, parsing an XML document involves either programming a parser to sequentially traverse an XML document, taking different actions as it encounters different tags (SAX) or building a tree representation of the document in memory and using tree methods to navigate the tree's parent-child relationships (DOM).

Quark snaps up XML developer

Quark has announced that it has acquired In.vision Research Corporation, a Florida-based software company that develops the add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring.

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.

Evaluate XPaths from the Java platform: Select parts of an XML document from Java code

No data format is harder to search than XML, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Javaâ„¢ programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Java is a welcome addition to the programmer's toolkit. Now the power of XQuery is available to Java programmers without resorting to system calls or unwieldy APIs, all in a Sun-standardized package.

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.

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