To understand Microsoft's commitment, look at the third leg on the BizTalk stool: first is the repository, second is the schema framework, and third is the BizTalk commercial server. You can't blame Microsoft for using their influence to promote cross-industry support for their product format—...
This month DataChannel is expected to announce its own foray into the authoring market. The company is developing an add-on to a "popular word processor" that will "save as XML." The new product wasn’t ready when we visited in August, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see a prerelease...
Moreover, there is a general trend to bring more structured authoring to the ta- ble. Products such as Ektron's EwebEditPro+XML and ArborText's Contribute bring XML authoring to browser-based forms, and HTML forms are giving way to XML-aware eForms technologies such as Microsoft's InfoPath...