Articles

Introduction to BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite)

Debbie Lapeyre

Deborah A. Lapeyre, one of the developers of BITS and a member of both the BITS committee and the JATS Standing Committee, introduces us to the BITS tag set for the archiving and interchange of technical books.

18 January 2019 Read

An Introduction to XForms

Steven Pemberton

Steven Pemberton gives us an introduction to XForms with several examples of how useful it is.

27 November 2018 Read

Introduction to JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite)

Debbie Lapeyre

Deborah A. Lapeyre, one of the developers of JATS and a member of the JATS secretariat, introduces us to the ANSI/NISO standard for the XML interchange of journal articles.

12 October 2018 Read

Unique particle attribution in XML Schema

Mukul Gandhi

This article discusses the XML Schema "Unique Particle Attribution" constraint.

13 June 2018 Read

Co-occurrence constraints and Conditional Type Assignment, with XML Schema 1.1

Mukul Gandhi

This article discusses two useful features of XML Schema 1.1: "Co-occurrence constraints", and "Conditional Type Assignment".

29 May 2018 Read

XML is 20

Tim Bray

Tim Bray on XML's 20th birthday

10 February 2018 Read

Observations on equational content in XML workflows

Peter Krautzberger

Peter Krautzberger discusses strategies for representing mathematical equations in XML and on the web.

15 January 2018 Read

What is NISO STS?

B. Tommie Usdin

B. Tommie Usdin, one of the developers of NISO STS, introduces us to the new standard for the XML interchange of standards

6 January 2018 Read

The use of OASIS genericode for arbitrary sparsely-populated tables in XML

G. Ken Holman

OASIS Genericode is a standard developed for interchanging code lists in XML. Here, Ken Holman discusses an unanticipated but useful application of Genericode to tables that are not entirely full of content and not in any way related to code lists.

5 November 2017 Read

Horses for courses: A perspective on an XML vs. JSON discussion

G. Ken Holman

Although it's tempting to use the same technology wherever possible, it does not always lead to the best results. Ken Holman discusses some differences between XML and JSON and when to use each, prompted by a discussion on the XML-dev mailing list.

6 August 2017 Read