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XBRL: The eXtensible Business Reporting Language 
XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data. It provides benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language. It is one of a family of XML languages which is becoming a standard means of communicating information between businesses and on the internet.
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The XMetaL-DITA group was founded to educate XMetaL users in working with the DITA standard.
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A collection of XML online resources maintained by IBM's DeveloperWorks division.
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XML Adoption for Document-Based Applications 
The question is not whether XML will succeed as a widespread data format, but rather how fast, to what level and with what products. With the rapid maturing of the XML data standard by the W3C and the creation of many related standards, hundreds of leading vendors will ship XML-enabled products over the next 24 months. These products will drive a limited, but important, number of corporate and commercial publishing applications that will both prove the market viability of XML and also generate a small but critical mass of XML data that will trigger rapid widespread adoption.
Young, Brad and Randy Clark. STC Proceedings (1999). Design>Information Design>XML
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XML provides a robust, non-proprietary, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web. XML removes the complexity of SGML, making it easier to define your own document types, and to write programs to handle them.
Bokil, Manoj. STC India (2003). Articles>Documentation>Information Design>XML
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XML Architecture for Customized User Assistance
To create a specific deliverable, you collect all of the relevant topics and wrap information around them. A printed book, for instance, contains topics grouped into chapters along with front and back matter.
O'Keefe, Sarah S. WritersUA (2005). Articles>Information Design>Help>XML
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An XML Architecture for Technical Documentation: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture
DITA is an architecture for creating topicoriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. It is also an architecture for creating new information types and describing new information domains, allowing groups to create very specific, targeted document type definitions using a process called specialization, while at the same time reusing common output transforms and design rules. We discuss several methods that can be used to extend DITA’s basic topic types.
Day, Don, Erik Hennum, John Hunt, Michael Priestley and David Schell. STC Proceedings (2003). Articles>Information Design>Metadata>XML
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The following list of articles and papers on XML represents a mixed collection of references: articles in professional journals, slide sets from presentations, press releases, articles in trade magazines, Usenet News postings, etc. Some are from experts and some are not; some are refereed and others are not; some are semi-technical and others are popular; some contain errors and others don't. Discretion is strongly advised. The articles are listed approximately in the reverse chronological order of their appearance. Publications covering specific XML applications may be referenced in the dedicated sections rather than in the following listing.
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XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is used to aid the exchange of data. The language makes it possible to define data in a structured way. XML tags are not predefined like HTML. XML lets you create your own unique tags that are meaningful for your data, hence the use of the term 'extensible.'
Zaman, Mamun. Dev Articles (2007). Articles>Information Design>Standards>XML
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XML was designed to be multi-lingual. Therefore, one is not restricted to only 7-bit ASCII characters when creating XML documents. Document authors can use the 16-bit+ Unicode 2.1 standard as well. As long as a mapping exists between the various DTDs for a particular international data file, one application could process data from many different languages at once.
Duffy, Scott. XGuru (2003). Design>Information Design>XML
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The World Wide Web Consortium, the standards body for all web technologies, describes XML as a “method for putting structured data in a text file” (See www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points.. That’s accurate, but doesn’t really describe what XML is.
Manning, Steve. STC Proceedings (2001). Articles>Information Design>XML
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XML Basics for Technical Communicators 
What is XML? Cross-platform, software and hardware independent tool for storing information. A subset of SGML. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served and processed on the Web in a way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML.
Pujar, Amit. STC India (2003). Presentations>Information Design>TC>XML
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XML Basics: Reading and Writing
This chapter covers the two most important tasks in working with XML: reading it into memory and writing it out again. XML is a structured, predictable, and standard data storage format, and as such carries a price.
Ray, Erik T. and Jason McIntosh. O'Reilly and Associates (2002). Design>Information Design>Programming>XML
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After spending a week of toil and labor in the Semantic Web mines, I've returned to the surface, to the sweetness and light of the XML developer community. And what do I find but a crisis about the XML part of the technical book publishing industry, as well as a monster thread about character entity names.
Clark, Kendall Grant. XML.com (2003). Articles>Publishing>Information Design>XML
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XML Can Go to H***: One Designer's Experience with the "Future of Publishing"
Ask any guru about the next frontier in publishing and you'll hear the snazzy-sounding letters 'XML.' But according to Susan Glinert, who bears XML battle scars, the future is not bright. It boggles the mind that anyone bothered to invent a publishing solution that plunges both right- and left-brained people into absolute chaos.
Glinert, Susan. Creative Pro (2004). Articles>Information Design>XML
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Yates provides a checklist of requirements that managers can use to determine if XML is an appropriate technology for their technical writing departments.
Yates, Valerie I. Intercom (2002). Design>Information Design>XML
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XML became an integral part of Microsoft's strategy around the time of Internet Explorer 4. IE4 was an XML-aware browser. As well as displaying HTML documents, it could also display XML documents through an inbuilt XML parser. Another part of IE4 was something known as the XML DSO (Data Source Object). The XML DSO allows you to manipulate primitive XML 'data islands' by binding (or attaching) the XML data to HTML presentation elements. The XML elements within Internet Explorer continue to be improved and added to with every new IE release.
Self, Tony. HyperWrite (2006). Articles>Information Design>XML>Web Browsers
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XML will change the way you develop and integrate your databases.
Trytten, Chris. FileMaker Advisor (2002). Articles>Information Design>Databases>XML
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Don't let expectations or excitement about XML develop into a virulent strain of XML fever.
Wilde, Erik and Robert J. Glushko. Communications of the ACM (2008). Articles>Information Design>XML
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XML Holds Potential to Transform Data Transport
XML is a language for creating data-description languages.
Jorda, Craig. STC Four Lakes (2000). Presentations>Information Design>XML
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XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML Features
The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5, comes with many features for XML developers, including XML parsing, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, XML Events in JavaScriptâ„¢, and XForms. Additional third-party extensions provide even more XML support. In this article, Uche Ogbuji provides an overview of XML features in Firefox 1.5.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2006). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>XML
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XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 2: Basic XML Processing
This second article in the series, "XML in Firefox 1.5," focuses on basic XML processing. Firefox supports XML parsing, Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), and XSLT stylesheets.
Ogbuji, Uche. IBM (2006). Articles>Information Design>Web Design>XML
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Maybe XML is more like a carcinogen. We don't notice it's there, but we're still getting exposed to it. In ever-increasing doses. But unlike a carcinogen, XML is not bad for our health; in fact, it has many life-enhancing properties. Well, work-enhancing properties.
HyperWrite (2006). Articles>Information Design>Standards>XML
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A journal publishing articles about information design using XML.
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This chapter focuses on the details of XML markup. It will describe the fundamental building blocks of all XML-derived languages: elements, attributes, entities, processing instructions, and more. And I'll show you how they all fit together to make a well-formed XML document. Mastering these concepts is essential to understanding every other topic in the book, so read this chapter carefully.
Ray, Erik T. O'Reilly and Associates (2003). Design>Information Design>XML
