by Niel Bornstein – In my first article in this series, I wrote about porting a SAX application called RSSReader to the new Microsoft .NET Framework XmlReader. After publication, I received a message from Chris Lovett of Microsoft suggesting I revisit the subject. As he said, while the code I presen

John Zukowski – Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol you can use to add instant messaging to your applications. If you're interested in learning about Jabber but aren't quite sure where to begin, here's a review of three books on the subject to help you get off to the right start.

By Jonathan Lurie & Timothy Stockstill – Microsoft was initially slow to develop an Internet product. I recently read a quote from a ranking Microsoft employee who said, “If you cut us, we bleed XML.” While this may seem a little dramatic, it happens to be true: XML seems to be everywhere in Microso

by Bob DuCharme – In last month's column we looked at XSLT techniques for splitting up strings of text, for checking whether strings had certain substrings, and for normalizing white space out of an element. This month we'll learn more ways to gain control over strings in your source documen