Now, though, Fast Search and Transfer has launched a search engine that it claims is the fastest and most comprehensive source of information on WAP-enabled information, with more than 20,000 pages currently indexed.
It refers to XML, which is readily described as data objects without behaviour. For past Devil's Advocate columns see the links below, or type 'Devil' into our search engine. In these, software was used to represent the objects of the problem and...
Software developers are angry that Microsoft has been granted a patent for the conversion of objects into XML files. As applications will often need to convert between programming objects and XML files, this patent could cover virtually any...
Is it really true that Microsoft has patented the transformation of objects into XML? My immediate reaction was that XML documents were objects without the behaviour. It is reported that Microsoft has now achieved a patent on the transformation of...
During the summer of 2003, Discover Travel and Tours International introduced an XML interface which allows data to be sent directly to publishers of travel brochures, preformatted exactly as the publishers want it.
Up to now we've been able to communicate words very well over the Internet using HTML, but we're not very good at communicating complete scientific, medical and technical objects at the moment. Two of the most widely used development languages...
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