Based on an analysis of several large XML projects, this article examines how to make effective and efficient use of DOM. Developer/author Tony Daruger provides a set of usage patterns and a library of functions to make DOM robust and easy to use. Though the DOM offers a flexible and powerful means

Adding to the already existing confusion surrounding MSXML versions, Microsoft released number four of what is now called Microsoft XML Core Services. While innovation is a good thing, the growing number of different levels of XML support on Microsoft platforms is worrysome. But the good news first,

By Gavin Clarke – A number of XML extensions planned for SQL Server 2000 are due in the coming months and will be bundled into the next version of Microsoft's database, positioning it squarely within the vendor's .Net framework.The as-yet-unspecified extensions will expose SQL Server

A posting from Henry S. Thompson announces the availability of XSV Version 1.3. This 'Validator for XML Schema' is an open source (GPLed) work-in-progress attempt at a conformant schema-aware processor, per the W3C XML Schema Recommendation. XSV version 1.3 switches from using DTD to pre-val

In this installment of Working XML, Benoit Marchal uses XML filters to add new functionality to XM, his open-source Web publishing application. Thanks to two new features, XM is now powerful enough to handle simple Web sites. Code samples demonstrate the use of filters and other techniques, as well

Web guru Tim Berners-Lee’s recent pronouncement that the future web is an intelligent one, based on XML, received some further boosts from OASIS and EECMA. OASIS announced new committees to create a standard business vocabulary and develop a web services component model. EECMA (the European Electron

by Joe Johnston – XML-RPC is a wire protocol that describes an XML serialization format that clients and servers use to pass remote procedure calls to each other. There are two features that make this protocol worth knowing. The first is that the details of parsing the XML are hidden from the user.

Version 5.2 of the W3C Amaya editor/browser supports the display of generic XML documents in addition to dedicated support for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML Basic, XHTML 1.1, HTTP 1.1. In browser mode, Amaya 5.2 will display the content of the XML document in the formatted-view, and its whole structur

Sabre has introduced its newest Web development tool, the XML Power Tool Kit — a product designed to communicate with the Sabre system using XML which eliminates the need for developers to have specialized Sabre programming knowledge.

X-Hive have released a demo of an XQuery implementation, while Ipedo have announced a new version of their database, including SVG management capabilities.