Archive for May, 2008

The evolution of “Binary XML”

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Using a binary XML format generally reduces the size of XML documents and cost of parsing. It aims to provide more efficient serialization than the text-based XML format. One of the popular opensource platforms "GlassFish" by Sun uses a variation of Binary XML called "Fast Infoset", which is ...

What is UBL?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Universal Business Language (UBL) is a library of standard electronic XML business documents such as purchase orders and invoices. UBL was developed by OASIS Technical Committee with participation from a variety of industry data standards organizations. UBL is designed to plug directly into existing business, legal, auditing, and records management ...

The Evolution of standards in the Transportation Sector

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

The Transportation Industry recognized the need for industry standards early on and formed the Transportation Data Coordinating Committee (TDCC) in 1968. The TDCC was formed as a non-profit organization in Washington DC and organizes data standards, formats codes, and protocols for the transportation industry. The ground rules the TDCC began ...