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Under the Hood: Oracle Berkeley DB XML
By Deepak Vohra XML Databases, coupled with the power of XQuery, offer a potentially paradigm-changing way of dealing with data. The Oracle Berkeley DB XML database provides a rich XQuery-based engine that can be manipulated via XQuery, opening up possibilities for any web developer. [May. 7, 2008] XForms Thick Clients By Jack Cox Jack Cox explains an approach to building XForms client applications that work in a disconnected environment. [Oct. 19, 2007] XForms, XML Schema, and ROX By Kurt Cagle Kurt Cagle describes ROX Server, a RESTful system for building XForms from an XML Schema and some other bits. [Aug. 17, 2007] XQuery, libferris, and Virtual Filesystems By Ben Martin Ben Martin returns with another look at his fascinating system, libferris, which turns everything into a filesystem, that is, a hierarchical data store. This time Ben shows us how to use XQuery with libferris as a kind of universal data access language. Good stuff! 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[Jan. 4, 2006] Hacking eBay: Turning Email Alerts into Atom By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme, a long-time XML.com contributor, shows us how to turn eBay email alerts into an Atom channel. [Nov. 23, 2005] REST on Rails By Matt Biddulph Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular framework for building web applications. Matt Biddulph shows us how good the fit is between Rails and lightweight REST web apps and services. [Nov. 2, 2005] Is AJAX Here to Stay? By Jordan Frank Jordan Frank takes a high-level look at the way AJAX is changing the Web and whether it's a technology that's going to stick around. [Oct. 5, 2005] Processing Atom 1.0 By Uche Ogbuji In his final Python-XML column, Uche Ogbuji shows us three ways to process Atom 1.0 feeds in Python. [Sep. 14, 2005] Dispatching in a REST Protocol Application By Joe Gregorio Joe Gregorio, in his latest Restful Web column, shows us how to write dispatch code to handle REST requests. [Aug. 17, 2005] EaseXML: A Python Data-Binding Tool By Uche Ogbuji In this month's Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji examines a new XML data-binding tool for Python: EaseXML. [Jul. 27, 2005] Secure RSS Syndication By Joe Gregorio Joe Gregorio hacks a Greasemonkey script to make his browser decrypt a Blowfish-encrypted RSS channel on the fly. [Jul. 13, 2005] The Evolution of JAXP By Rahul Srivastava Rahul Srivastava provides an introduction and update to the latest release of JAXP, a Java XML API. [Jul. 6, 2005] Life After Ajax? By Micah Dubinko Micah Dubinko says that the way Ajax technologies are presently deployed will eventually run into complexity barriers. It's time, he claims, for more declarative, markup-based alternative strategies. [Jun. 29, 2005] Going Native, Part 3 By Ronald Bourret Ronald Bourret, acknowledged XML database expert, concludes a three-part series that makes the case for native XML databases--this time focusing on schema evolution, web services, and hierarchical data. [May. 25, 2005] Unicode Secrets By Uche Ogbuji In his latest Python-XML column, Uche Ogbuji delves broadly and deeply into the world of Unicode, especially with regard to processing XML in Python. [May. 18, 2005] Errors and AJAX By Joshua Gitlin AJAX is hot, but is it real? How mature are the techniques, and can you use them right now? Joshua Gitlin offers a method for trapping client-side JavaScript errors and logging them, server-side, with AJAX. [May. 11, 2005] Constructing or Traversing URIs? By Joe Gregorio In his latest RESTful Web column, Joe Gregorio turns to an important design question: how will clients figure out the URIs of important resources in a Web service or app? [Apr. 6, 2005] Writing and Reading XML with XIST By Uche Ogbuji In Uche Ogbuji's latest Python and XML column he introduces XIST, which has been called "object-oriented XSLT for Python" -- a framework for manipulating XML Pythonically. [Mar. 16, 2005] Comparing XSLT and XQuery By J. David Eisenberg J. David Eisenberg asks, and answers, a vital question: if I already know XSLT, should I also learn XQuery? Get up to speed on the W3C's XML native programming language. [Mar. 9, 2005] XML on a Chip By Jimmy Zhang Jimmy Zhang asks whether custom processors can speed XML applications, and whether they can speed them enough to be worth the effort. [Mar. 9, 2005] Show Me the Code By Joe Gregorio Joe Gregorio returns with another Restful Web column, taking up the issue of designing a REST protocol for your application. [Mar. 2, 2005] REST Reporting By Eric Gropp Eric Gropp describes the design of a REST web service for creating paper reports using XSLT and XSLFO. [Feb. 16, 2005] Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji introduces Amara, his new collection of XML tools for Python. [Jan. 19, 2005] Amazon's Simple Queue Service By Joe Gregorio In Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column, he explains that Amazon's Simple Queue Service, a web service offering a queue for reliable storage of transient messages, isn't as RESTful as it claims. [Jan. 5, 2005] XQuery's Niche By Edd Dumbill XQuery has been much hyped, but is it sufficiently different from XSLT to be successful? Edd Dumbill follows a debate looking for XQuery's niche. [Dec. 29, 2004] The Cost of XML By Edd Dumbill The apparent overhead of using XML is once more in the spotlight, as is the financial overhead of using eBay's web services. Edd Dumbill reports. [Dec. 15, 2004] Full XML Indexes with Gnosis By Uche Ogbuji In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji shows us how to index XML documents using Python's Gnosis Utilities. [Dec. 8, 2004] On Folly By Edd Dumbill XML-oriented programming languages? Crazy! The Semantic Web? Nuts! Or perhaps not. Edd Dumbill on how the crackpots were right all long. [Dec. 8, 2004] How to Create a REST Protocol By Joe Gregorio In his first installment of XML.com's new column, The Restful Web, Joe Gregorio, one of the people behind Atom, explains how to use REST to create an application protocol in four easy steps. [Dec. 1, 2004] Using Customized Schema Constraints By Bob DuCharme In the return of Bob DuCharme's Transforming XML column, he discusses ways to add customized constraints to schemas and how you can use XSLT as a bridge to implement them. [Nov. 10, 2004] Introducing del.icio.us By Matt Biddulph Matt Biddulph introduces del.icio.us, the social bookmarks manager, by showing us how to interact with it programmatically via Python. [Nov. 10, 2004] Of Presidents and Ontologies By Paul Ford At the pinnacle of election season in the U.S., Paul Ford returns with another Hacking Congress column. This time, Ford says things about the President using RDF and explains why the Semantic Web is about more than ontologies. [Nov. 3, 2004] The State of Python-XML in 2004 By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji reports on 74 Python-XML projects, giving us a status report on the state of Python-XML for 2004. [Oct. 13, 2004] Schematron 1.5: Looking Under the Hood By Bob DuCharme In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains the elegant simplicity of Schematron, a rule-based XML validation tool often implemented in XSLT. [Oct. 6, 2004] Perl Parser Performance By Petr Cimprich Petr Cimprich compares the performance of five Perl SAX2 parsers. Are you using the best one for your job? [Sep. 15, 2004] Wrestling HTML By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji's Python and XML column returns with a look at techniques for converting arbitrary and invalid HTML into XHTML. [Sep. 8, 2004] Screenscraping the Senate By Paul Ford In Paul Ford's first Hacking Congress column, he shows us how to turn information on the U.S. Senate site into RDF. [Sep. 1, 2004] Constraining Validation By Edd Dumbill What's the difference between validation and business rules? XML developers discuss how and why to use them. [Aug. 25, 2004] Protocol Design: Reliablity and Security By Itamar Shtull-Trauring In the fifth and final installment of his Designing Protocols series, Itamar Shtull-Trauring discusses issues relating to reliable and secure protocols, including TLS. [Aug. 25, 2004] Serializing Java Objects with XStream By Michael Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald gives us a quick lesson in using XStream to serialize and deserialize Java objects to and from XML. [Aug. 18, 2004] Practical SAX Notes By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji follows up on some of the practical aspects and implications of his latest Python and XML columns, including SAX and namespace issues. [Aug. 11, 2004] Amazon's Web Services and XSLT By Bob DuCharme In his latest Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme introduces us to the XSLT processing-service component of Amazon's web services. [Aug. 4, 2004] Decomposition, Process, Recomposition By Uche Ogbuji In Uche Ogbuji's latest Python and XML column he explores a pattern for handling very large XML files easily and efficiently. [Jul. 28, 2004] Introducing o:XML By Martin Klang o:XML is an innovative object-oriented programming language in which XML is a first class type and also provides the concrete syntax. [Jul. 21, 2004] Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 2 By Massimiliano Bigatti The second part of our coverage of design patterns for web services arising from real-life implementation scenarios. [Jun. 30, 2004] XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools, Part Three By Uche Ogbuji In this month's Python and XML column Uche Ogbuji examines the namespace support in ElementTree, PyRXPU, and libxml. [Jun. 30, 2004] Creating XML with Genx By Michael Fitzgerald GenX is an easy-to-use C library for generating well-formed XML output. Learn how to use it in our introduction. [Jun. 23, 2004] A First Look at the Kowari Triplestore By Paul Ford An introduction to the Kowari open source RDF store. [Jun. 23, 2004] Web Services Integration Patterns, Part 1 By Massimiliano Bigatti These design patterns for web services arose from real-life implementation scenarios, using web services in banking applications. [Jun. 16, 2004] Non-Extractive Parsing for XML By Jimmy Zhang Changing the way XML parsers are written can make parsing more efficient and more flexible. [May. 19, 2004] XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools, Part Two By Uche Ogbuji In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji continues his tour of XML namespaces support in Python tools, focusing this time on 4Suite. [May. 13, 2004] SVG and Typography: Characters By Fabio Arciniegas A. In this second part of our discussion of SVG and typography we explore some time-honored practices of typographic excellence. [May. 12, 2004] Document-Centric .NET By Eric Gropp Centering an application around XML exchange brings many benefits in flexibility and loose-coupling. [May. 12, 2004] Developing Wireless Content using XHTML Mobile By Jean-Luc David XHTML Mobile provides an answer to the proliferation of incompatible mobile markup solutions. Find out how to make mobile content, and ensure backwards compatibility. [Apr. 14, 2004] An Atom-Powered Wiki By Joe Gregorio As an example of implementing the Atom content management API, we set up a Wiki that can be accessed via Atom. [Apr. 14, 2004] PyCon 2004: Making Python Faster and Better By Kendall Grant Clark Highlights from the annual gathering of Python developers. Including news of Python 2.4, Python on the .NET CLR, web programming and more. [Mar. 31, 2004] Creating and Consuming Web Services With PHP By Jean-Luc David Find out how to create XML-RPC, SOAP and REST web services using PHP, the most popular scripting language for web applications. [Mar. 24, 2004] XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools, Part 1 By Uche Ogbuji Uche Ogbuji provides a hands-on introduction to Python's facilities for processing XML namespaces. [Mar. 10, 2004] BumbleBee, the XQuery Test Harness By Jason Hunter Jason Hunter introduces a testing framework for XQuery, which lets you write tests for your own queries and verify query engine interoperability. [Mar. 10, 2004] From Wiki to XML, through SGML By Rick Jelliffe XML made SGML obsolete, right? Not quite! Rick Jelliffe uses SGML to translate wiki text into XML. [Mar. 3, 2004] Using XML Catalogs with JAXP By Tom White XML Catalogs offer a way to manage local copies of public DTDs, schemas, or any XML resource that exists outside of the referring XML instance document. Find out how to use them in Java with JAXP. [Mar. 3, 2004] Getting Reacquainted with dbXML 2.0 By Tom Bradford The second version of dbXML is much improved over its predecessor, offering transactions, security features, new APIs and query mechanisms. Tom Bradford gives us an update. [Feb. 25, 2004] Protocol Design: The Need for Speed By Itamar Shtull-Trauring Part three of our series on designing protocols looks at how network transfer speed can be maximized. [Feb. 25, 2004] Lightweight XML Search Servers, Part 2 By Jon Udell Jon Udell enhances his lightweight XML search server by adding database backed storage, using the Berkeley DB XML database, and retrieving and indexing all of the weblogs he reads. [Feb. 18, 2004] Television Listings and XMLTV By Kyle Downey On a quest to build a DIY personal video recorder, Kyle Downey gets to grips with XMLTV, a toolkit for screen-scraping TV listings data into XML. [Feb. 18, 2004] Combining RELAX NG and Schematron By Eddie Robertsson Eddie Robertsson explains how RELAX NG and Schematron can be mixed in a single schema to get the combined validation power of both languages. [Feb. 11, 2004] The Ox Documentation Tool By Michael Fitzgerald Ox is a simple documentation tool for people who regularly work at the shell or command-prompt level: a Java program that accepts a keyword or term as input and then returns documentation for that term. [Jan. 28, 2004] Lightweight XML Search Servers By Jon Udell Jon Udell creates a lightweight XML search server using Python and the libxml/libxslt libraries. [Jan. 21, 2004] Protocol Design: Sessions By Itamar Shtull-Trauring In the second of his series on designing protocols, Itamar Shtull-Trauring discusses sessions, a way of grouping together messages. [Jan. 20, 2004] Character Repertoire Validation for XML By Erik Wilde This article presents a schema language for limiting the range of characters permitted in an XML document. It can be used to protect legacy applications or to enforce restrictions in document workflows. [Jan. 14, 2004] DOM for Web Services, Part 3 By Faheem Khan In the final part of his series on processing SOAP using W3C DOM, Faheem Khan covers Apache Xerces-J and explains when using DOM is appropriate. [Jan. 6, 2004] Getting Started with XForms By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme provides an implementation-centered guide to using XForms, the new W3C forms technology for the web. [Dec. 30, 2003] Protocol Design: How Many Bytes? By Itamar Shtull-Trauring In the first article of a new series on protocol design, Itamar Shtull-Trauring explores the different ways of indicating how many bytes are present in a protocol payload. [Nov. 25, 2003] Using XSS4J for XML Encryption By Bilal Siddiqui In the second part of his series on implementing web services security, Bilal Siddiqui introduces IBM alphaWorks' XML Security Suite for Java. [Nov. 25, 2003] Creating an SVG Wiki By Danny Ayers Wikis are a popular way of text-based collaboration on the web. Danny Ayers shows how to add SVG support to wikis, in order to share diagrams as well as text. [Nov. 19, 2003] Enterprise Application Integration using Apache Cocoon 2.1 By Tony Culshaw A case study of using Cocoon to build a web-based travel agency desktop system, integrating several backend systems. [Nov. 12, 2003] DOM for Web Services, Part 2 By Faheem Khan This article shows how to use Microsoft's Document Object Model (DOM) implementation to create a user interface for a web service from a WSDL file, with examples both in Internet Explorer and using ASP.NET. It provides a gentle introduction to the programmatic use of the DOM. [Nov. 11, 2003] XSLT Reflection By Jirka Kosek Reflection enables a programming language to inspect and modify its own code. XSLT, being expressed in XML, comes with this built in. This article shows how XSLT can be used to process XSLT to solve real problems. [Nov. 5, 2003] XML Schema Design Patterns: Is Complex Type Derivation Unnecessary? By Dare Obasanjo This article explores both derivation by restriction and derivation by extension of complex types in W3C XML Schema, showing the pros and cons of both techniques and alternative ways of achieving the same results. [Oct. 29, 2003] Using Embedded XML Databases to Process Large Documents By Mark Wilcox What do you do when you want the convenience of DOM programming, but your document size is more suited to using SAX? This handy tip shows that an embedded XML database can be just the ticket for processing such documents. [Oct. 22, 2003] microdom: an XML DOM Designed For HTML By Itamar Shtull-Trauring As the migration from broken HTML to XHTML continues on the web, we need tools that are capable of processing both. This article covers one such tool, microdom, that is capable of supporting legacy HTML both in input and output. [Oct. 15, 2003] DOM for Web Services, Part 1 By Faheem Khan In this first part of a three-part series, Faheem Khan introduces the application of the W3C's Document Object Model in processing web services. He also gives an overview of the main two DOM processors in use, Apache Xerces and Microsoft's MSXML. [Oct. 14, 2003] What Is Service-Oriented Architecture By Hao He Service-Oriented Architecture underpins most modern web services. It aims to achieve loose coupling between interacting software agents in order to preserve the benefits of reusability, extensibility and simplicity. [Sep. 30, 2003] Integrating Services with XSLT By Will Provost For all the magic that XML, SOAP, and WSDL offer in allowing businesses to interoperate, they do not solve the more traditional problems of integrating data models and message formats. This article shows how XSLT can be used to integrate data models across web services. [Sep. 30, 2003] An Introduction to StAX By Elliotte Rusty Harold StAX, the Streaming API for XML, is a new API for pull-parsing of XML, developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 173. O'Reilly author Elliotte Rusty Harold gives an introduction to this API, which combines the efficiency of SAX with the ease of use of tree-based APIs. [Sep. 17, 2003] Using XPath with SOAP By Massimiliano Bigatti There are many approaches to processing SOAP data, some more complex than others. One lightweight way is by using XPath to extract the items of interest. This article demonstrates a Java web service and client based around the Jaxen XPath API. [Sep. 16, 2003] What Interoperability Isn't By Will Provost The buzzword "interoperability" has grown to encompass a broad range of problems and is no longer a precise term. This article challenges several apparent interoperability problems in web services, many of which are really solved problems from other domains. [Sep. 2, 2003] A Web Services Strategy for Mobile Phones By Nasseam Elkarra Planning to deploy information services on mobile phones? This article gives an overview of the various technologies and routes available for mobile web service development. [Aug. 19, 2003] Low Bandwidth SOAP By Jeff McHugh Using web services on low resource J2ME devices is possible through Enhydra.org's KSOAP classes. This article shows you how to create lightweight web service clients and servers. [Aug. 19, 2003] XSLT Recipes for Interacting with XML Data By Jon Udell Continuing his experiments in pure XML-backed web sites, Jon Udell investigates various ways in which XSLT can be used to produce interactive pages from XML data. [Aug. 13, 2003] EXSLT for MSXML By Dimitre Novatchev Once thought an impossible task, MSXML now has EXSLT support, thanks to Dimitre Novatchev. In this fascinating article, the author explains the obstacles he overcame and how he implemented EXSLT. [Aug. 6, 2003] WSDL Tales From the Trenches, Part 3 By Johan Peeters This third and final part of WSDL Tales from the Trenches concentrates on the data aspects of web services. It discusses the type definitions and element declarations in the types element of a WSDL document. Such types and elements are used in the abstract messages in web service descriptions. [Aug. 5, 2003] UML for Web Services By Will Provost How can web services development be given a proper design process? Enter the Unified Modeling Language, or UML, which is the whiteboard notation for object-oriented analysis and design, and offers a natural fit to RPC-style service design. [Aug. 5, 2003] Extending RSS By Danny Ayers The RDF foundations of the RSS 1.0 specification make it easy to extend and mingle with other RDF vocabularies. This article shows how, and explains how these benefits can be reaped in RSS 2.0 feeds as well. [Jul. 23, 2003] Web Services and Sessions By Sergey Beryozkin Saving state in web services interactions is an important capability. This article reviews the various approaches to maintaining sessions in web services. [Jul. 22, 2003] WSDL First By Will Provost If you're serious about developing RPC-style Web services, you should know WSDL as well as you know W3C XML Schema, and be creating and editing descriptors frequently. Furthermore, your WSDL should be the starting point in your development process. [Jul. 22, 2003] Understanding the node-set() Function By Jirka Kosek In XSLT some surprisingly trivial requirements cannot be expressed in a straightforward way. This article describes how to overcome these problems by using the powerful node-set() extension function. [Jul. 16, 2003] An XML Fragment Reader By William Brogden Despite many potential uses of XML using fragments of XML text, not complete documents, XML parsers require complete documents to do their jobs properly. This article develops an XML fragment reading class for Java. [Jul. 16, 2003] A Survey of APIs and Techniques for Processing XML By Dare Obasanjo An overview of the current landscape of techniques for processing XML -- from old mainstays such as push model APIs and tree model APIs to newer participants in the XML world such as cursor APIs and pull model parsers. [Jul. 9, 2003] The Document is the Database By Jon Udell When we convert to a database-backed Web application in order to solve problems of shared editing and presentation-oriented file formats, we trade away the convenience of the file-oriented approach. Can we have our cake and eat it too? [Jul. 9, 2003] Vox Populi: Web Services From the Grassroots By Rich Salz In Rich Salz's latest column, he examines the effort to redefine simply site syndication, claiming that it's already technically superior to RSS 2.0. [Jul. 8, 2003] Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT, Part 2 By Ali Mesbah, Arjan Vermeij A followup to a previous article about web forms for editing XML documents with W3C XML Schema and XSLT. The updated solution now addresses the problems of adding new elements into instance documents and creating new documents. [Jun. 25, 2003] Transforming XML with PHP By Bruno Pedro Bruno Pedro examines the two main APIs for transforming XML from the PHP web scripting language: XML_Transformer and XSLT. [Jun. 18, 2003] Writing and Debugging XQuery Web Apps with Qexo By Per Bothner A tutorial on writing, installing, and debugging a web application written with the W3C XQuery language. The software used includes the open source Qexo XQuery implementation and the Tomcat application server. [Jun. 11, 2003] Shortening XSLT Stylesheets By Manfred Knobloch XSLT is often considered to be too verbose. As a stylesheet's code grows, it tends to be unreadable. This is not a fate stylesheet authors have to accept. This article proposes some ways of shortening stylesheets without loss of functionality, including the use of XSLT 2.0 user defined functions. [Jun. 11, 2003] Structured Writing, Structured Search By Jon Udell Jon Udell further explores the benefits of preserving structure in web content, suggesting that the availability of structured search for content could motivate the creation of the structured content itself. [Jun. 10, 2003] Visualizing XSLT in SVG By Chimezie Ogbuji XSLT stylesheets can rapidly become difficult to understand for anyone but their original author. By using XSLT on itself, this article demonstrates how to create a diagram explaining the flow of control within a stylesheet. [Jun. 4, 2003] Designing a New Schema with XML Design Patterns By Kyle Downey Following on from our articles on XML schema design patterns, this article applies these patterns to the design of a new schema, leveraging existing XML languages such as XHTML and RDF along the way. [Jun. 4, 2003] WSDL Tales From The Trenches, Part 1 By Johan Peeters In this first article in a new series about WSDL implementation experience, Johan Peeters describes some high level best practices for designing web services interfaces. [May. 27, 2003] Interactive Web Applications with XQuery By Ivelin Ivanov The W3C's XQuery language can be used to create HTML front ends to web services. Ivelin Ivanov demonstrates by wrapping Amazon's ListMania interface. [May. 14, 2003] Berkeley DB XML: An Embedded XML Database By Paul Ford Paul Ford introduces Sleepycat Software's Berkeley DB XML database, an XML-aware version of the popular Berkeley DB libraries, embedded in many software products. [May. 7, 2003] Web-based XML Editing with W3C XML Schema and XSLT By Ali Mesbah A solution to the problem of generating web forms for editing XML documents, utilising W3C XML Schema and XSLT. [Apr. 30, 2003] An SVG Case Study: Integrated, Dynamic Avalanche Forecasting By Chris Cochella, Tyler Cruickshank Avid backcountry skiers Chris Cochella and Tyler Cruickshank were frustrated by the irregular and distributed nature of avalanche danger information on the web, so they used Perl, MySQL and SVG to draw together an integrated avalanche forecasting tool. [Apr. 23, 2003] Processing RSS By Ivelin Ivanov In the first article of our new XQuery column, Ivelin Ivanov shows how XQuery makes light work of rendering multiple RSS files into a single HTML page. [Apr. 9, 2003] Fast XSLT By Steve Punte Steven Punte presents a review of the birth and development of the Apache XSLTC compiled-XSLT project and surveys the competition among XSLT processors. [Apr. 2, 2003] Architectural Design Patterns for XML Documents By Kyle Downey No one wants to reinvent the wheel. One way programmers try to reuse good ideas about object design is to look to catalogs of design patterns. In this article, Kyle Downey presents some patterns for designing XML document formats. [Mar. 26, 2003] Creating SOAP Services with Cocoon By Steve Punte This article introduces the XmlHttpTransformer component, which allows mid-pipeline Cocoon elements to operate as SOAP clients retrieving information from external services. [Mar. 18, 2003] An Introduction to Streaming Transformations for XML By Oliver Becker, Paul Brown, Petr Cimprich An introduction to Streaming Transformations for XML (STX), a template-based XML transformation language that operates on streams of SAX events. STX bears a strong resemblance to XSLT 1.0, the tree-driven transformation language for XML, but offers unique features and advantages for some applications. [Feb. 26, 2003] XP and XML By Eric van der Vlist Eric van der Vlist argues that the two worlds of XML and Extreme Programming have a lot to learn from each other, and that both could benefit from closer integration. [Feb. 19, 2003] An Introduction to the Relaxer Schema Compiler By Michael Fitzgerald, ASAMI Tomoharu Michael Fitzgerald and Tomoharu Asami introduce the Relaxer schema compiler, showing how to use it to generate schemas, stylesheets and Java code from instance documents and schemas. [Feb. 19, 2003] Building Metadata Applications with RDF By Bob DuCharme After some time wondering what to do with RDF, Bob DuCharme found RDFlib, a Python RDF processing library, and "the lightbulb finally went on." Bob describes his experiences. [Feb. 12, 2003] XSLT, Browsers, and JavaScript By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme, in this month's Transforming XML column, shows us how to include JavaScript in the HTML result tree of XSLT transformations. [Feb. 5, 2003] Managing Enumerations in W3C XML Schemas By Anthony Coates Tony Coates discusses best practices for managing W3C XML Schemas which include enumeration types, either under or out of the schema author's control. [Feb. 5, 2003] XML Forms, Web Services and Apache Cocoon By Ivelin Ivanov Server side business logic is often invariant with respect to the client device. Ivelin Ivanov shows how the Cocoon XMLForm framework addresses the concern of separating the purpose from the presentation of a form, maximizing its reusability for a variety of client devices. [Jan. 29, 2003] XML Pipelining with Ant By Michael Fitzgerald The Ant build tool is a useful framework for XML pipelining--performing a variety of ordered XML processing in one session. Michael Fitzgerald shows how. [Jan. 28, 2003] Excel Reports with Apache Cocoon and POI By Steve Punte Steve Punte shows how to generate real-time reports for Microsoft Excel, using the Apache Java projects Cocoon and POI. [Jan. 22, 2003] Transforming XML Schemas By Eric Gropp Eric Gropp shows how XSLT can be used to transform W3C XML Schemas to create, among other things, HTML input forms, generate query interfaces, and documentation of data structures and interfaces. [Jan. 15, 2003] The JAXB API By Kohsuke Kawaguchi Koshuke Kawaguchi examines the latest release of Sun's Java Architecture for XML Binding, focusing particularly on the API through which applications use the JAXB-generated code to process XML. [Jan. 8, 2003] Named Character Elements for XML By Anthony Coates, Zarella Rendon Zarella Rendon and Tony Coates introduce xmlchar, a new library for using XML elements to provide human readable names for special characters in XML documents [Jan. 2, 2003] Generating XML and HTML using XQuery By Per Bothner Often perceived mainly as a query language, XQuery can actually be used to generate XML and HTML. Per Bothner provides a worked example, and compares XQuery with XSLT. [Dec. 23, 2002] What Is RSS By Mark Pilgrim In Mark Pilgrim's inaugural Dive Into XML column, he reviews the history and technical details of the varieties of RSS on the Web. He also describes a method for parsing most active RSS feeds. [Dec. 18, 2002] A Data Model for Strongly Typed XML By Dare Obasanjo Many applications that process XML associated datatypes with parts of a document, and would benefit from an XML data model that made available such typing information. Dare Obasanjo discusses the candidates for such a model. [Dec. 18, 2002] Running Multiple XSLT Engines with Ant By Anthony Coates Tony Coates shows how Ant, the Java-based cross platform build tool, can be used to create sophisticated XML build pipelines, and ensure consistency of operation over multiple XSLT engines. [Dec. 11, 2002] Normalizing XML, Part 2 By Will Provost In this second and final look at applying relational normalization techniques to W3C XML Schema data modeling, Will Provost discusses when not to normalize, the scope of uniqueness and the fourth and fifth normal forms. [Dec. 4, 2002] The .NET Schema Object Model By Priya Lakshminarayanan Priya Lakshminarayanan describes in detail the use of the .NET Schema Object Model for programmatic manipulation of W3C XML Schemas. [Dec. 4, 2002] Getting Started with XOM By Michael Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald provides an introduction to the XML Object Model (XOM), a new Java XML API created by noted XML author Elliotte Rusty Harold, and finds it simple and easy to use. [Nov. 27, 2002] W3C XML Schema Design Patterns: Avoiding Complexity By Dare Obasanjo Previous attempts to define an effective subset of W3C XML Schema have thrown the baby out with the bathwater, says Dare Obasanjo, who proposes a less conservative set of guidelines for working with W3C XML Schema. [Nov. 20, 2002] Normalizing XML, Part 1 By Will Provost Will Provost's XML Schema Clinic series takes a look at the relational features of W3C XML Schema, applying the concepts of relational normalization to schema design. [Nov. 13, 2002] Proper XML Output in Python By Uche Ogbuji In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji explores the intricacies of creating proper XML output in Python, including character set and encoding issues. [Nov. 13, 2002] XML and Database Mapping in .NET By Niel Bornstein Continuing his look at .NET's XML processing from a Java point of view, Niel Bornstein discovers .NET's facilities for binding XML to databases. [Oct. 23, 2002] XML Canonicalization, Part 2 By Bilal Siddiqui In the second and final article of his series on XML Canonicalization, Bilal Siddiqui shows how to cope with documents that have CDATA sections, processing instructions, external entity references and comments. [Oct. 9, 2002] Introducing Mutation Events By Antoine Quint In his latest exploration of SVG, Antoine Quint introduces DOM Mutation Events as a way to integrate custom components more fully. [Oct. 9, 2002] Working with a Metaschema By Will Provost W3C XML Schema isn't just for validation -- in this article Will Provost demonstrates how adaptations of the schema for schemas can be used to drive applications. [Oct. 2, 2002] XMLPULL: A Response By Stefan Haustein, Aleksander Slominski The creators of the XMLPULL API for Java respond to Elliotte Rusty Harold's recent review of their API on XML.com [Sep. 25, 2002] Dirty XSLT Output By John E. Simpson John Simpson returns to answer more XML questions; this time he tackles a tricky interaction between implicit and explicit XSLT rules. [Sep. 25, 2002] Euro-XML By Rick Jelliffe The introduction of the Euro currency in Europe has brought about changes in commonly used character sets. Rick Jelliffe discusses the impact on XML applications. [Sep. 18, 2002] XML Canonicalization By Bilal Siddiqui Bilal Siddiqui explains the process of canonicalizing XML documents, useful in determining the logical equivalence of documents in order to secure XML exchanges. [Sep. 18, 2002] Simple Text Wrapping By Antoine Quint In his latest SVG column, Antoine Quint explains how to implement text wrapping in SVG. [Sep. 11, 2002] Structural Patterns in XML By Will Provost Will Provost shows how design patterns in XML structures can be used to help development of W3C XML Schemas. [Sep. 4, 2002] Transporting Binary Data in SOAP By Rich Salz In this month's Endpoints column, Rich Salz discusses the issue of transporting binary data in XML messaging, using the Soap with Attachments technique. [Aug. 28, 2002] The XMLPULL API By Elliotte Rusty Harold Elliotte Rusty Harold takes an analytical look at XMLPULL, an alternative parsing model to the well-known SAX and DOM approaches. [Aug. 14, 2002] XSLT Processing in .NET By Joe Feser Joe Feser gives an overview of the many ways XML can be transforming using XSLT within the Microsoft .NET Framework. [Aug. 14, 2002] UML For W3C XML Schema Design By Will Provost The latest installment of Will Provost's XML Schema Clinic series describes a UML profile for W3C XML Schema, allowing the modeling of schemas in UML. [Aug. 7, 2002] XML Data-Binding: Comparing Castor to .NET By Niel Bornstein In his continuing series comparing the use of XML with Java and .NET, Niel Bornstein examines the different approaches to data-binding available on the two platforms. [Jul. 24, 2002] Building XML Portals with Cocoon By Matthew Langham, Carsten Ziegeler Matthew Langham and Carsten Ziegeler describe the portal components they built for the Apache Cocoon Project. [Jul. 24, 2002] Implementing XPath for Wireless Devices, Part II By Bilal Siddiqui In the second of a two-part series, we explore the implementation of XPath on wireless devices using the WAP family of standards. [Jul. 17, 2002] Processing SOAP Headers By Rich Salz In this month's XML Endpoints column, Rich Salz explains how to process SOAP headers and why you'd want to. Along the way he predicts the demise of SAX-based SOAP processors. [Jul. 17, 2002] Getting Started With Cocoon 2 By Steve Punte An introduction to the Cocoon 2 XML publishing framework, demonstrating Cocoon's architecture with some simple applications. [Jul. 10, 2002] W3C XML Schema Design Patterns: Dealing With Change By Dare Obasanjo Designing schemas that support data evolution is beneficial in situations where the structure of the XML documents being processed may change as the application matures, but still need to be validated with the original schema. [Jul. 3, 2002] SVG Tips and Tricks: Adobe's SVG Viewer By Antoine Quint Antoine Quint takes a look at the special features available in the most popular SVG viewer around, Adobe's SVG Viewer 3.0. [Jul. 3, 2002] Editing XML Data Using XUpdate and HTML Forms By Chimezie Ogbuji This article shows how XSLT and XUpdate can enable easy generation of HTML forms for web applications that need to let the user edit XML data through the browser. [Jun. 12, 2002] Generating SOAP By Rich Salz In Rich Salz's second XML Endpoints column, he uses Python to demonstrate generating SOAP code for talking to Google's web service. [Jun. 12, 2002] Implementing XPath for Wireless Devices By Bilal Siddiqui In the first of a two-part series, we explore the implementation of XPath on wireless devices using the WAP family of standards. [Jun. 5, 2002] An Overview of MSXML 4.0 By Steven Livingstone Microsoft's MSXML 4.0 is more than just an XML parser: MSXML expert Steven Livingstone gives us a tour of the functionality of the Microsoft XML toolkit. [Jun. 4, 2002] Filling in the DTD Gaps with Schematron By Bob DuCharme Schematron can be used to enhance the capabilities of systems currently using DTDs, without meaning a complete shift in validation technology. [May. 15, 2002] Examining WSDL By Rich Salz The XML Endpoints column returns with Rich Salz's discussion of the state of WSDL, with particular reference to the new Google web services API. [May. 15, 2002] RelaxNGCC -- Bridging the Gap Between Schemas and Programs By Daisuke Okajima The author of the Java-based compiler compiler for the RELAX NG XML schema language explains how mingling code with schemas provides a flexible method for validating XML documents. [May. 8, 2002] REST Roundup By Leigh Dodds This week's XML-Deviant surveys the multifaceted debates about the REST web application architecture. [May. 8, 2002] Google's Gaffe By Paul Prescod Paul Prescod explains why moving its API to use SOAP was a backward step for the popular search engine, and argues for a return to a pure HTTP and XML interface. [Apr. 24, 2002] Beyond W3C XML Schema By Will Provost Adding XPath and XSLT into your toolchain for validating documents can give you much more control than using W3C XML Schema alone. [Apr. 10, 2002] What's New in XSLT 2.0 By Evan Lenz A advance look at the useful and much-awaited new features in the second version of the W3C's XSLT language. [Apr. 10, 2002] From JDOM to XmlDocument By Niel Bornstein In this second part of his "Learning C# XML" series, Niel Bornstein shows how Java-based document processing with JDOM translates into the .NET world with C#. [Apr. 3, 2002] Putting Attributes to Work By Bob DuCharme In this month's Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme examines the treatment of source tree attributes in XSL stylesheets. [Apr. 3, 2002] Template Languages in XSLT By Jason Diamond Handy as it is, XSLT fails to bring a proper separation between content and presentation. This article demonstrates how XSLT can be used to implement a template language more suitable for everyday use. [Mar. 27, 2002] Inside Sablotron: Virtual XML Documents By Petr Cimprich The Sablotron open source XSLT processor has an API that enables it to process "virtual XML documents," bringing with it a flexible and efficient approach to processing both XML and non-XML data sources. [Mar. 13, 2002] Creating Efficient MSXML Applications By Ben Berck How a resource hungry XML processing application was made efficient and scalabale. [Mar. 6, 2002] Learning C# XML By Niel Bornstein The first in a series providing an introduction to Microsoft's C# XML APIs from the perspective of a Java programmer. [Mar. 6, 2002] Server Side SVG By J. David Eisenberg SVG tools aren't just for the client side: find out how the Apache Batik toolkit can enable your web server to SVG on the fly, providing fallback to JPEG or PNG images for browsers without SVG support. [Feb. 27, 2002] The Visual Display of Quantitative XML By Fabio Arciniegas A. A tutorial on how to use SVG and XSLT to present your data in the most appropriate, efficient and attractive way possible. [Feb. 27, 2002] REST and the Real World By Paul Prescod Following on from his "Next Generation Web Services" article, Paul Prescod shows how the REST model for web services meets real world demands such as security, auditing and orchestration. [Feb. 20, 2002] Top Ten FAQs for Web Services By Ethan Cerami Ethan Cerami, author of Web Services Essentials answers ten of the most frequently asked questions about Web services, from what one is to how you can get started. [Feb. 12, 2002] Second Generation Web Services By Paul Prescod If SOAP and friends are the first generation of web services, what will the future look like? Paul Prescod explains how the basics of HTTP, XML and URIs will underlie second generation web services. [Feb. 6, 2002] Declaring Keys and Performing Lookups By Bob DuCharme This month's Transforming XML column explains how to use xsl:key and key() to do value lookups in XSLT stylesheets. [Feb. 6, 2002] The Value of Names in Attributes By Kendall Grant Clark The struggle with namespaces in XML continues in the developer community. Recent discussion has centered on the wisdom of the use of qualified names in attribute values by languages such as XSLT and W3C XML Schema. [Feb. 6, 2002] Relax NG, Compared By Eric van der Vlist A feature-by-feature explanation of the RELAX NG XML schema language, with reference to the features provided by the W3C's XML Schema Definition Language. [Jan. 23, 2002] Interactive Web Services with XForms By Micah Dubinko The W3C's new XForms technology can be used to attach user interfaces to web services, making efficient use of existing infrastructure. [Jan. 16, 2002] An Introduction to the XML:DB API By Kimbro Staken The growing number of native XML databases all have different programming interfaces. The XML:DB API is an open source project to provide a unified API for native XML databases. [Jan. 9, 2002] From Excel to XML By John E. Simpson John Simpson discusses converting spreadsheets to XML, and returns to the issue of legal XML element names. [Jan. 9, 2002] Top Ten SAX2 Tips By David Brownell Learn how to get the best out of the Simple API for XML from the author of O'Reilly's upcoming book on SAX2. [Dec. 5, 2001] Data Encoding or Data 'n Coding? By Timothy Ewald, Martin Gudgin How should XML types and programming language types be related? This month's XML Endpoints column offers a clear discussion of the relevant positions. [Nov. 21, 2001] XML::LibXML - An XML::Parser Alternative By Kip Hampton Kip Hampton discusses XML::LibXML, a capable, updated alternative to Perl's venerable and venerated XML::Parser. [Nov. 14, 2001] Controlling Whitespace, Part 1 By Bob DuCharme In the first of a multipart series, Bob DuCharme discusses stripping and preserving whitespace in XSLT transformations of XML documents. [Nov. 7, 2001] Introduction to Native XML Databases By Kimbro Staken Native XML databases are an important part of the emerging XML software infrastructure. This article explains their features, strengths and weaknesses. [Oct. 31, 2001] The Selfish Tag By Edd Dumbill Even in the standards-led world of today, an attitude of pragmatic selfishness is the best policy for developers using XML in their applications. [Oct. 24, 2001] XML and Databases? Follow Your Nose By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds explores the sometimes pungent, often sweet world of XML-database integration requirement smells. [Oct. 24, 2001] Building Web Services with FileMaker Pro By Bill Humphries By creating PHP code to work with FileMaker Pro's XML interface, Bill Humphries shows how to create FileMaker-based solutions for workgroup intranets. [Oct. 17, 2001] Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML: Part III By Dave Carlson The final installment in our series on modeling XML vocabularies presents extensions to UML for its use with W3C XML Schema. [Oct. 10, 2001] XML You Can Touch By Edd Dumbill What's really hot these days in XML isn't the latest spec, but it's the software that's using XML. Edd Dumbill takes a look at how XML has been adopted in the GNOME desktop platform. [Oct. 10, 2001] Generating Unique IDs and Linking to Them By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme explains the creation and use of unique element IDs, using XSLT's generate-id(), in order to build complex document links. [Oct. 3, 2001] Valid Frustrations By John E. Simpson John Simpson talks about some of the limits of DTD content models, suggesting an interesting XSLT-based alternative. [Sep. 26, 2001] Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML: Part II By Dave Carlson In the second part of our series on modeling XML vocabularies Dave Carlson describes how to map models from UML to the W3C XML Schema Definition Language. [Sep. 19, 2001] Writing SAX Drivers for Non-XML Data By Kip Hampton Kip Hampton shows us how to write drivers to produce SAX events and, thus, XML documents from non-XML data sources. [Sep. 19, 2001] XSLT Extensions By Bob DuCharme Bob DuCharme explores XSLT extension functions, showing you the best way to use them in portable stylesheets. [Sep. 5, 2001] Modeling XML Vocabularies with UML: Part I By Dave Carlson In the first of a three-part series Dave Carlson describes how UML can be put to use in modeling XML vocabularies. [Aug. 22, 2001] Architectural Style By Leigh Dodds Leigh Dodds reviews a debate about the usefulness of XSLT, concluding that if used as intended, XSLT is one of the successful XML technologies. [Aug. 15, 2001] Creating VoiceXML Applications With Perl By Kip Hampton Kip Hampton shows you how to use VoiceXML and Perl to connect the telephone to the Web. [Aug. 9, 2001] Doing it Simpler By Leigh Dodds Dodds recaps the history of SML-DEV's efforts to simplify XML, including Common XML, MinML, and YAML. He then examines where SML-DEV may be going next. [Aug. 1, 2001] The RDF Calendar Task Force By Leigh Dodds Dodds describes the goals and methodology of the RDF Calendar Task Force, a practical Semantic Web development effort. [Jul. 25, 2001] RDF Applications with Prolog By Bijan Parsia In the second article in our series on RDF and Prolog, we compare the use of Prolog and XSLT to render RDF into HTML. [Jul. 25, 2001] The Collected Works of SAX By Leigh Dodds Dodds reports on XML-DEV's latest efforts to enhance the SAX API and to build a standard library of SAX tools. [Jul. 18, 2001] Creating Scalable Vector Graphics with Perl By Kip Hampton Kip Hampton demonstrates how to use Perl, XML, and SVG to generate useful and attractive graphics dynamically. [Jul. 11, 2001] Using XML to Configure Groove By Brian Buehling Groove is a peer-to-peer groupware solution, launched earlier this year. Brian Buehling investigates how XML is used to support the creation of custom Groove applications. [Jul. 11, 2001] Namespace Nuances By John E. Simpson This month's Q&A column tackles the question of how to write DTDs for XML applications that use namespaces. [Jul. 5, 2001] Against the Grain By Leigh Dodds XML developers are talking about a perennial question: how can XML and database technologies be integrated appropriately? [Jul. 5, 2001] Math and XSLT By Bob DuCharme XSLT is primarily for transforming text, but you can use it to do basic math too. [Jul. 5, 2001] Storing XML in Relational Databases By Igor Dayen A survey of the techniques used by the major vendors to store XML in their databases, and a proposition for a database-independent XML framework. [Jun. 20, 2001] Perl XML Quickstart: Convenience Modules By Kip Hampton The third and final part of our guide to Perl XML modules covers some handy modules geared to specific tasks. [Jun. 13, 2001] Big Documents, Little Attributes By John E. Simpson This month our Q&A column tackles storing large numbers of records in XML, and explains the use of attribute definitions in DTDs. [Jun. 6, 2001] W3C XML Schema Made Simple By Kohsuke Kawaguchi The W3C XML Schema Definition Language can be easy to learn and use, claims Kohsuke Kawaguchi -- you just need to know what to avoid. [Jun. 6, 2001] Using the Jena API to Process RDF By Joe Verzulli Jena is a freely-available Java API for processing RDF. This article provides an introduction to the API and its implementation. [May. 23, 2001] Perl XML Quickstart: The Standard XML Interfaces By Kip Hampton In the second part of our guide to XML and Perl, we cover the Perl implementations of the standard XML APIs DOM, SAX, and XPath. [May. 16, 2001] Mapping DTDs to Databases By Ronald Bourret This in-depth article describes best practice for mapping XML documents to databases. [May. 9, 2001] Parsing the Atom By Leigh Dodds Not every piece of data the XML programmer has to deal with comes neatly packaged in angle brackets. XML developers have been examining how W3C XML Schema could help out. [Apr. 25, 2001] Intuition and Binary XML By Leigh Dodds Binary encodings for XML is a well-worn topicon XML-DEV, yet last week's revisiting of the debate introduced some interesting new evidence. [Apr. 18, 2001] Perl XML Quickstart: The Perl XML Interfaces By Kip Hampton This first installment of our guide to Perl and XML covers Perl-specific interfaces for reading and writing XML. [Apr. 18, 2001] TREX Basics By J. David Eisenberg TREX is an alternative schema language created by James Clark, designed to be simpler and more lightweight than W3C's XML Schema. [Apr. 11, 2001] XP Meets XML By Leigh Dodds The XML-Deviant has been watching advocates of the latest trend in software development, Extreme Programming, get to grips with XML. At least they have acronyms in common. [Apr. 4, 2001] A Brief History of SOAP By Don Box An insider's view of the last three years of SOAP's development, its relationship with W3C XML Schema, and an assessment of where XML protocols should go next. [Apr. 4, 2001] DTDs, Industry Markup Languages, XSLT and Special Characters By John E. Simpson Our monthly question and answer column returns to solve all your tricky problems with XML. [Mar. 28, 2001] XSLT Processor Benchmarks By Cyrus Dolph, Eugene Kuznetsov The latest benchmark figures for XSLT processors show Microsoft's processor riding high, with strong performance from open source processors. [Mar. 28, 2001] Using XML::Twig By Kip Hampton XML::Twig provides a fast, memory-efficient way to handle large XML documents, which is useful when the needs of your application make using the SAX interface overly complex. [Mar. 21, 2001] TAXI to the Future By Tim Bray Tim Bray presents TAXI, a Web application architecture that utilises the power of XML to deliver a responsive user environment. [Mar. 14, 2001] Extensions to XSLT By Leigh Dodds Members of the XSL mailing list have started a commnunity-based project to standardize extensions for XSLT. [Mar. 14, 2001] Toward an XPath API By Leigh Dodds Since XSLT and XPointer rely on XPath, developers are asking whether an XPath API should be created. [Mar. 7, 2001] Answering the Namespace Riddle By Leigh Dodds Dodds introduces RDDL, the Resource Directory Description Language, the result of a recent project conducted by the XML developer community to make XML namespaces easier to use. [Feb. 28, 2001] High-Performance XML Parsing With SAX By Kip Hampton Manipulating XML documents in Perl using DOM or XPath can hit a performance barrier with large documents -- the answer is to use SAX. [Feb. 14, 2001] Functional Programming and XML By Bijan Parsia Current XML programming practice is dominated heavily by object-oriented techniques, but are we missing out on new and innovative ways of handling XML? Find out in our whistle-stop tour of functional programming and XML. [Feb. 14, 2001] Adventures with OpenOffice and XML By Matt Sergeant We explore the new XML output format in the open source word processor OpenOffice, and its potential to change the face of open source XML content management. [Feb. 7, 2001] Setting and Using Variables and Parameters By Bob DuCharme This article shows how variables and parameters can be used in XSLT stylesheets to substitute values into templates. [Feb. 7, 2001] Dictionaries and Datagrams By Leigh Dodds XML developers have been reexamining the textual encoding of XML, addressing concerns of verbosity and multilingual elements. [Jan. 24, 2001] Creating Web Utilities Using XML::XPath By Kip Hampton Using XML on your web site means more than just valid XHTML: our monthly Perl and XML column explores some possibilities for the automation of an all-XML web site. [Jan. 10, 2001] The W3C XML Schema Specification in Context By Rick Jelliffe This article compares the W3C XML Schema Definition Language with XML document instances and DTDs, SGML DTDs, Perl regular expressions, and alternative schema technologies such as RELAX and Schematron. [Jan. 10, 2001] Axis Powers: Part Two By Bob DuCharme Part one of this series introduced the role of XPath axes in XSLT. This article explains the remaining axes and shows how to handle namespaces in XPath. [Jan. 3, 2001] Staying in Synch By Didier Martin SyncML is a new standard aimed at keeping your data synchronized between devices both large and small. Didier Martin provides a whirlwind tour of this new technology. [Dec. 27, 2000] Axis Powers: Part One By Bob DuCharme In this first installment of a two-part series, we examine the vital role of XPath in XSLT, and introduce the axes used in XPath expressions. [Dec. 20, 2000] Using XML and Relational Databases with Perl By Kip Hampton This article explores how Perl can be used to transfer data between XML and relational databases, and how XML can bridge two disparate databases. [Dec. 13, 2000] Will XML replace HTML? By John E. Simpson The relationship between XML and HTML is often confusing for the Web developer coming to XML for the first time. Our Q&A column explains all. [Dec. 13, 2000] XML 2000 Focuses on Schemas By Eric van der Vlist Reports from the first afternoon of the "XML Leading Edge" track from XML 2000, which was dedicated to the W3C XML Schema Definition Language. [Dec. 6, 2000] Developers' Day at XML 2000 By Edd Dumbill The XML Developers' Day at XML 2000, chaired by Jon Bosak, was composed of "late-breaking" developments in XML, and provided many valuable insights into developing XML systems. [Dec. 5, 2000] Validating XML with Schematron By Chimezie Ogbuji Schematron is an XSLT-based language for validating XML documents. This article explains why schema languages are required and introduces the principles behind Schematron. [Nov. 22, 2000] Simple XML Validation with Perl By Kip Hampton A combination of Perl and XPath can provide a quick, lightweight solution for validating documents. Find out how in the first installment of our new monthly Perl and XML column. [Nov. 8, 2000] The Semantic Web: A Primer By Edd Dumbill The question "What is the Semantic Web?" is being asked with increasing frequency. While mainstream media is content with a high level view, XML developers want to know more, and discover the substance behind the vision. [Nov. 1, 2000] Combining Stylesheets with Include and Import By Bob DuCharme XSLT provides two means of combining multiple stylesheets into one, include and import. This article explores the use of these instructions and shows how they can be used to customize the DocBook XSLT stylesheets. [Nov. 1, 2000] RELAX Quick Reference By J. David Eisenberg A quick reference to RELAX schema definition language, covering all its major features. [Oct. 16, 2000] Learning to RELAX By J. David Eisenberg The RELAX schema language is a simpler alternative to W3C XML Schemas. This easy-to-read tutorial shows you just how easy it can be to RELAX. [Oct. 16, 2000] XML Reduced By Leigh Dodds Is the incessant multiplication of XML standards leading to confusion, and what is the real minimum a developer needs to know about XML in order to do useful work? [Oct. 11, 2000] What's Wrong with Perl and XML? By Michel Rodriguez Perl, the choice of many for programming on the Web, lags behind Java and C++ in the XML popularity contest. Michel Rodriguez shares his opinions on what's wrong, and what could be done about it. [Oct. 11, 2000] HTML and XSLT By Bob DuCharme While HTML isn't an XML application itself, it can be both generated and transformed using XSLT. Bob DuCharme show us how. [Aug. 30, 2000] Adapting Content for VoiceXML By Didier Martin In the second part of his "Write Once, Publish Everywhere" project, Didier Martin takes us through creating content for voice browsers. [Aug. 23, 2000] Choosing an XML Parser By John E. Simpson Validating or non-validating? Java-based, Perl, or C? This month we tackle the tricky issue of which parser to use for your XML applications. [Aug. 22, 2000] Write Once, Publish Everywhere By Didier Martin Didier Martin leads us through building a portal accessible by HTML, WML, and VoiceXML. This week's article introduces the project and covers the login process. [Aug. 16, 2000] Processing Inclusions with XSLT By Eric van der Vlist Processing document inclusions with general XML tools can be problematic. This article proposes a way of preserving inclusion information through SAX-based processing. [Aug. 9, 2000] Putting RDF to Work By Edd Dumbill Tool and API support for the Resource Description Framework is slowly coming of age. Edd Dumbill takes a look at RDFDB, one of the most exciting new RDF toolkits. [Aug. 9, 2000] Adding New Elements and Attributes By Bob DuCharme This month's installment of our XSLT tutorial covers adding new elements and attributes to the results of your XSLT transformations. [Aug. 2, 2000] XML Questions Answered By John E. Simpson In the first of our new monthly XML Q&A columns we tackle the problem of converting HTML to XML, ask "What is markup?", and discover whether XML has any weaknesses. [Jul. 26, 2000] Codename Spinnaker By Leigh Dodds Despite starting off life in a rather turbulent fashion, the "Xerces Refactoring Intiative" promises to improve both the software and the internal structure of the Apache XML Project. [Jul. 19, 2000] Visual Basic Special Edition This special edition of XML.com is dedicated to exploring how XML can be used with Visual Basic, one of the most widespread programming environments. Find out more about using VB with the DOM, XSLT and SOAP. [Jul. 12, 2000] Visual Basic and the XML DOM: An Annotated Example By Mark Wilson, Tracey Wilson Our annotated example gives an easy introduction to using Visual Basic and XML together. This article is an extract from the book "XML Programming with VB and ASP." [Jul. 12, 2000] XML and Visual Basic By Kurt Cagle What happens when one of the most popular programming languages in the world meets XML? This article explains how to use XML with Visual Basic, and the effect XML is having on VB application design. [Jul. 12, 2000] VB as Device Controller By Kurt Cagle [Jul. 12, 2000] Exposing Application Services With SOAP By James Snell In this tutorial for advanced users of Visual Basic, James Snell shares his experience of the Microsoft SOAP toolkit and demonstrates how to construct web services. [Jul. 12, 2000] More To WAP Than Meets The Eye By Didier Martin HDML is still a widespread language for marking up mobile phone content. Didier Martin introduces us to the differences between HDML and WML, and shows how HDML can be created from XML. [Jul. 5, 2000] XPathScript: An Alternative To XSLT By Matt Sergeant XPathScript brings the power of XPath into a familiar ASP-like web development environment, using mod_perl and Apache. In this article, XPathScript's author explains its main features and advantages. [Jul. 5, 2000] Quilt Has Querying Covered By Edd Dumbill Jonathan Robie of Software AG kicked off the XML Europe session on XML Query languages Tuesday afternoon with a description of the Quilt language. [Jun. 13, 2000] XMLterm: A Mozilla-based Semantic User Interface By R. Saravanan Mozilla's support for rendering XML and CSS offers the capability for creating new types of user interfaces, combining aspects of the command line, GUI, and web interfaces. In this article, the author of XMLterm explains his project to integrate the Unix shell and Mozilla. [Jun. 7, 2000] A Mobile Window on our Portal By Didier Martin As promised, we return to our HTML/WML portal project to demonstrate creating the WML side of the portal using XSLT, XLink, and XInclude. [May. 31, 2000] AxKit: XML Web Publishing with Apache and mod_perl By Matt Sergeant AxKit is a new Apache- and Perl-based solution for publishing web pages using XML and style sheets. In this article AxKit's creator, Matt Sergeant, describes the architecture and the future direction of the project. [May. 24, 2000] How AxKit Works By Matt Sergeant AxKit is a new Apache- and Perl-based solution for publishing web pages using XML and style sheets. In this article AxKit's creator, Matt Sergeant, describes the architecture and the future direction of the project. [May. 24, 2000] XML at Jetspeed By Edd Dumbill Jetspeed is a new open source project to create a Java and XML-based enterprise information portal. We review the progress so far and examine the possibilities for the project's future. [May. 15, 2000] XML Conformance Update By David Brownell Since our last round of conformance tests, significant changes have happened in the XML parser world. Our latest XML conformance tests yield good results from open source parsers, but disappointing ones from Microsoft and Oracle. [May. 10, 2000] JDOM and TRaX By Leigh Dodds Two innovative technologies have recently been announced to the XML developer community: JDOM, a Java-specific DOM; and TRaX, an API for XML transformations. [May. 3, 2000] Generic Data Models and Schemas By Jeff Lowery In a response to an article on XML.com ("Keep it Simple"), reader Jeff Lowery writes to share how he is using the DOM in his applications, and his wishes for XML Schema integration in programming languages. [May. 3, 2000] On Display: XML Web Pages with Internet Explorer 5.x By Simon St. Laurent Completing our survey of XML browsing support, we take a look at Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and attempt to create a cross-browser XML document that works in Mozilla, Opera, and MSIE. [May. 2, 2000] RAX: An XML Database API By Sean McGrath Neither SAX nor DOM are well-suited to processing database-generated XML. RAX is a record-oriented API to XML data that reduces the overhead and complexity of handling XML generated from databases. [Apr. 26, 2000] Character Encodings in XML and Perl By Michel Rodriguez This article examines how to handle character encodings with XML and Perl: which encodings are handled natively, converting to and from Unicode, and what to do when your tools don't support Unicode. [Apr. 26, 2000] Groves Explained By Fabio Arciniegas A. Every so often somebody on an XML mailing list will tell you that groves are the answer to all your problems. But what exactly are they? Fabio Arciniegas A. presents an introduction to groves and their use. [Apr. 19, 2000] Processing XML with Perl By Michel Rodriguez Perl has an unparalleled wealth of XML support, but where do you start? Can you tell a twig from a tree? Can you see the DOM for the groves? Read on to find out which Perl module to use for your XML processing. [Apr. 5, 2000] Processing XML with Perl - Part 2 By Michel Rodriguez Perl has an unparalleled wealth of XML support, but where do you start? Can you tell a twig from a tree? Can you see the DOM for the groves? Read on to find out which Perl module to use for your XML processing. [Apr. 5, 2000] Keep it Simple... By Edd Dumbill The popularity of Sean McGrath's PYX notation has highlighted the value of simple syntax-based XML processing. Why stack layer upon layer of processing when you don't need it? [Mar. 29, 2000] On Display: XML Web Pages with Mozilla By Simon St. Laurent Widespread support for XML in browsers is finally on the horizon. In the first of a series covering Mozilla, IE, and Opera, Simon St.Laurent looks at formatting XML with CSS2 inside Mozilla. [Mar. 29, 2000] Integration by Parts: XSLT, XLink and SVG By Didier Martin Didier Martin gives us a practical demonstration of the power of XSLT, XLink and SVG, bringing them together to generate interactive, illustrated, technical documentation. [Mar. 22, 2000] Pyxie Perfect By Edd Dumbill Last week's article about Pyxie fired the imagination of XML.com's readers. Now Pyxie has Java and Perl implementations too! [Mar. 22, 2000] Pyxie By Sean McGrath Ingeniously combining concepts from SGML with the ethos of simplicity, Pyxie presents a powerful alternative to existing methods for processing XML. [Mar. 15, 2000] Fooling with XUL By Edd Dumbill With the mounting excitement about Mozilla, we decided to check out the promise of the XML, DOM, and CSS in combination with the XUL user interface language. [Mar. 15, 2000] Fooling with XUL - Part 2 By Edd Dumbill [Mar. 15, 2000] Relax, and Take it Easy By Simon St. Laurent Delegates to XTech 2000 on Wednesday were shown two technologies aimed at making their lives easier: EasySAX, a Python XML processor, and RELAX, a simplified schema language. [Mar. 2, 2000] Bleeding-Edge XML: XLink and Apache By Edd Dumbill In the first of our reports from XTech 2000, we examine the XLink specification and learn about XML web publishing from the Apache XML Project. [Feb. 28, 2000] Advanced XML Applications in Zope By Amos Latteier Concluding his three-part tutorial on XML and Zope, Amos Latteier discusses the wider implications of creating XML applications with Zope, demonstrating with the creation of an RSS channel class. [Feb. 23, 2000] Design Patterns in XML Applications: Part II By Fabio Arciniegas A. In the concluding part of this series, Fabio Arciniegas A. examines the use of XML-specific design patterns in applications and DTD design. [Feb. 16, 2000] Inside SOAP By Don Box A technical introduction to SOAP, an XML-over-HTTP remote procedure protocol. SOAP was recently submitted to the IETF as an Internet Draft. [Feb. 9, 2000] Design Patterns in XML Applications By Fabio Arciniegas A. Design patterns are a useful technique for the transmission of knowledge about recurrent problems in software development. Fabio Arciniegas A. investigates their application to XML processing. [Jan. 19, 2000] Internet Scripting: Zope and XML-RPC By Amos Latteier Examining how the Zope application server uses XML-RPC to allow remote scripting of objects via the Web. [Jan. 12, 2000] Creating XML Applications With Zope By Amos Latteier Zope is an open source Python-based web application server. Amos Latteier, author of Zope's XML support, shows how to use it to create simple XML-based applications. [Dec. 15, 1999] XML Processing with Python By Sean McGrath XML'99 got underway Sunday with tutorials from XML experts. Today we bring you a taste of those tutorials from Sean McGrath, who is teaching a course on XML with Python. Sean presents an overview of the popular language, and some sample XML processing programs. [Dec. 6, 1999] Describing your Data: DTDs and XML Schemas By Simon St. Laurent Are you confused about which XML schema syntax to use? Concerned that your XML applications remain interoperable with future XML schema standards? Simon St. Laurent guides us through the maze of XML schema languages, focusing on DTDs and XML Schemas. [Dec. 1, 1999] XML Programming with C++ By Fabio Arciniegas A. SAX or DOM? Fabio Arciniegas A. examines various approaches to using XML in C++ applications, demonstrating when to use each approach, with plenty of examples to illustrate his points. [Nov. 17, 1999] Conformance Testing for XML Processors By David Brownell This multi-part article evaluates the results of testing a dozen XML processors (XML parsers) against the OASIS Conformance Suite to see how well they follow the XML specification. [Sep. 15, 1999] Non-Validating XML Processors By David Brownell Brownell evaluates the results for non-validating XML parsers. [Sep. 15, 1999] Some Background on XML Conformance Testing By David Brownell Brownell explains how he implemented conformance testing utilizing the OASIS Conformance Test Suite. [Sep. 15, 1999] Building Applications with eXcelon By Jon Udell In part two of his review of Object Design's eXcelon, Jon Udell shows how to build server extensions and client applications, and how to design XML structures using the tool. [Aug. 25, 1999] Backends Sharing Data By Edd Dumbill What if you could script remote procedure calls between web sites as easily as you can between programs? Edd Dumbill shows how it can be done in PHP. [Aug. 11, 1999] What Is a Schema By Norman Walsh In the context of XML, a schema describes a model for a whole class of documents. [Jul. 1, 1999] Monitoring Updates with XML and Java By Lisa Rein XSA is a Java-based tool for monitoring updates that uses XML to organize information about software products. [Jun. 23, 1999] Why XML is Meant for Java? By Matthew Fuchs Is there a special affinity between Java and XML? Matthew Fuchs thinks it is because the two have grown-up together, and he talks about why they do work so well together. [Jun. 16, 1999] XSL Considered Harmful By Michael Leventhal XSL is far more complicated than it needs to be, and we don't need it, argues Leventhal. CSS and the DOM are just fine so waiting for XSL to become a standard is nothing but a distraction. [May. 20, 1999] XSL Considered Harmful, Part 2 By Michael Leventhal This article demonstrates how a combination of CSS and DOM are sufficient to do what you'd need XSL for. [May. 20, 1999] Getting Started with XML Programming, Part II By Norman Walsh Norman Walsh looks at how to program to use the DOM as programming-language-independent interface to documents. He shows how to interact with the DOM using Java. [May. 5, 1999] Getting Started with XML Programming By Norman Walsh How is processing an XML document really different than processing a plain old text file? [Apr. 21, 1999] XML support in IE5 By Tim Bray Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 5 and XML.com's technical editor Tim Bray finds that though the final release of IE5 has some nice features for the XML community, its XML implementation is still a little buggy. [Mar. 18, 1999] Namespaces in XML Adopted by W3C By Mark Walter The "Namespaces in XML" specification has been formally adopted by the W3C as a recommendation. XML.com's Mark Walter explains why this was needed and what it will do to increase the adoption of XML. [Jan. 19, 1999] XML Namespaces by Example By Tim Bray The hows and whys of XML namespaces explained by a co-author of the specification, XML.com's technical editor Tim Bray. [Jan. 19, 1999] XQL: Proposal for a new XML Query Language By Mark Walter Debate over XML query languages could heat up as a Microsoft-led group proposes XQL as an alternative to XML-QL proposed by AT&T Labs. [Nov. 9, 1998] W3C completes DOM specification By Liora Alschuler Last month the W3C released a recommendation for the Document Object Model Level 1, a key component of the XML family of standards. [Oct. 21, 1998] Live Data from WDDX By Lisa Rein Software developers are finding out that XML can be used on many different levels for the representation of data structures used by programs written in different languages. [Oct. 6, 1998] The Code of the XML Geeks By Peter Murray-Rust Our XML:geek columnist comes to the rescue of geek code users, and takes XML itself as the extension to the geek code. [Oct. 3, 1998] Building the Annotated XML Specification By Tim Bray XML.com's technical editor explains the conceptual design and syntactical execution of our popular Annotated XML Specification. [Sep. 12, 1998] Using The Perl XML::Parser Module By Clark Cooper In this article Clark presents two Perl programs which demonstrate some of the XML::Parser module's capabilities. [Sep. 12, 1998] Flipping the Links By Tim Bray How Java was used to convert the XML to HTML. [Sep. 12, 1998] Conclusion: How Much Work Was It? By Tim Bray The conclusion of Tim Bray's explanation of how he created the Annotated XML Specification. [Sep. 12, 1998] How the Annotated XML Specification Works By Tim Bray Tim describes the architecture of the AXML system and the design decisions he made. [Sep. 12, 1998] Entities: What are They Good For? By Norman Walsh What are entities in XML documents and how do I use them? The XML Q&A column has the answers. [Aug. 28, 1998] Types of Entities By Norman Walsh Part 1 of Norman Walsh's XML Q&A column on entities. [Aug. 28, 1998] Entity Declarations, Attributes and Expansion By Norman Walsh Part 2 of Norman Walsh's XML Q&A column on entities. [Aug. 28, 1998] Handling Binary Data in XML Documents By Lisa Rein Binary data can present some interesting problems. This article looks at ways to support binary data such as images in XML documents. [Jul. 24, 1998] The XSA DTD By Lisa Rein View the DTD used by XSA [Jun. 23, 1998] XML and Perl By Dale Dougherty In this RealAudio interview, Tim Bray and Larry Wall discuss how the Perl programming language can do powerful text processing with XML. [May. 1, 1998] Document Object Model Requirements By Jared N. Sorensen, Lauren Wood This document defines the high-level requirements for the Document Object Model (DOM). [Oct. 2, 1997] The Evolution of Web Documents By Dan Connolly, Rohit Khare, Adam Rifkin In this article, we trace the history and evolution of Web data formats, culminating in XML. We evaluate the relationship of XML, HTML, and SGML, and discuss the impact of XML on the evolution of the Web. [Oct. 2, 1997] Embedded Markup Considered Harmful By Theodor Holm Nelson Hypertext's founding father artfully lays out some opposition to the conventional wisdom that SGML and its derivatives, HTML and XML are good things. [Oct. 2, 1997] XML: From Bytes to Characters By Bert Bos This article defines, in some detail, how text is stored in an XML file. It also describes how an XML file is encoded for transportation over the Internet, and upon arrival, decoded again. [Oct. 2, 1997] Capturing the State of Distributed Systems with XML By Rohit Khare, Adam Rifkin This paper discusses the challenges of capturing the state of distributed systems across time, space, and communities, and looks to XML as an effective solution. [Oct. 2, 1997] XML, Java, and the Future of the Web By Jon Bosak Jon Bosak, the leader of the XML Working Group, reflects upon the development of XML and how it will open up new kinds of Web applications. [Oct. 2, 1997] |
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