Eager to get Web services developers to conform to one if its key recommendations, the Web's leading standards body has released a set of tests for XML processors.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Wednesday launched the XML Conformance Test Suite. Offered free of charge, the suite consists of 2000 files, each of which tests for a specific feature or combination of features in the second edition of the W3C's published XML 1.0 recommendation.
XML, short for Extensible Markup Language, is a format that's been gaining cachet as a way to simplify data exchanges between disparate businesses and software programs. It lets programmers define types of data--a product ID number, for instance--so that computer programs can instantly recognize the information being transferred and handle it properly.
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