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Schema for Object-Oriented XML
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<p>Schema for Object-Oriented XML, or SOX, is an <a href="/facts/XML_schema/uWam66Rj">XML schema</a> language developed by <a href="/facts/Commerce_One/KA3UFwIL">Commerce One</a>. In 1998 a SOX specification was submitted to the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web_Consortium/lGWmhF6M">World Wide Web Consortium</a> and published as a W3C Note. A revised version, SOX 2.0, was published as a W3C Note in 1999. </p><p>SOX was one of several predecessors of the <a href="/facts/W3C/lGWmhF6M">W3C</a>'s <a href="/facts/XML_Schema_(W3C)/X6Uly3dm">XML Schema</a> language. After the publication of XML Schema, SOX continued to be supported by Commerce One until the company's bankruptcy in late 2004. </p><p>The patents for SOX and other Commerce One technologies were purchased by <a href="/facts/Novell,_Inc./lABGMT7U">Novell, Inc.</a> in December 2004, reportedly in an effort to prevent them from being exploited by unrelated companies whose primary business is filing patent-related lawsuits. </p>