We propose the use of XML for specifying and designing hardware. Many different methods for the specification of hardware designs are in use. The majority of these are based on either closed markup ...

Markup code, or markup language, is basically a set of words and symbols created by the computer industry with the goal of helping to process, organize, and present information, as well as to inform ...

XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. To be formal about it, XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. Practically speaking, XML is a method to structure ...

What if every bit of data in every computer included instructions about its content that would allow any other computer to interact with it? Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maintaining a smooth flow of information from one software application to another needn’t be quite the hassle that it once was during upgrades. Just ask the automation engineers at Chevron Global ...

The character set that lets computers write in every language from Czech to Chinese could make Web browsers tongue-tied, two standards groups warned on Friday. But a technical report released by the ...