The Efficient XML Software Development Kit (SDK) provides the tools you need to integrate Efficient XML into your application, system, or enterprise.
Efficient XML SDK Contents
The Efficient XML Runtime, used to encode and decode data in the Efficient XML format. The Efficient XML format was chosen by the W3C as the basis for the forthcoming Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) standard.
Support for Popular XML APIs including SAX, DOM, JAXP, and a pull-model streaming API patterned on StAX, are built into the Efficient XML runtime. Efficient XML
Before we start talking about XML and databases, we need to answer a question that occurs to many people: "Is XML a database?"
An XML document is a database only in the strictest sense of the term. That is, it is a collection of data. In many ways, this makes it no different from any other file -- after all, all files contain data of some sort. As a "database" format, XML has some advantages. For example, it is self-describing (the markup describes the structure and type names of the data, although not the semantics), it is portable (Unicode), and it
XML Schema is a language for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents. Stylus Studio® 2007 supports XML Schema editing, conversion, validation, documentation generation and much more. Select from the list below to learn more about Stylus Studio® 2007's advanced support for XML Schema development.
XML Schema Editor
Stylus Studio® 2007 includes a visual XML Schema Editor that supports modular XML Schema component design, refactoring, and much more!
XML Schema Documentation Generation
Publish your XML data model to
The purpose of an XML Schema is to define the legal building blocks of an XML document, just like a DTD.
An XML Schema:
1.defines elements that can appear in a document
2.defines attributes that can appear in a document
3.defines which elements are child elements
4.defines the order of child elements
5.defines the number of child elements
6.defines whether an element is empty or can include text
7.defines data types for elements and attributes
8.defines default and fixed values for elements and attributes
XML Schemas are the
An XML Schema Definition (XSD) is an instance of an XML schema written in XML Schema. An XSD defines a type of XML document in terms of constraints upon what elements and attributes may appear, their relationship to each other, what types of data may be in them, and other things. It can be used with validation software in order to ascertain whether a particular XML document is of that type, and to produce a PSVI.
XSDs were the first W3C-recommended XML schemas to provide a namespace and datatype aware alternative to using XML's native Document Type
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