Most schema languages rely on regular grammars for specifying schema constraints, a fundamental paradigm in the design of these languages. The one exception is Schematron, produced by Rick Jelliffe. Schematron throws out the regular grammar approach, replacing it with a rule-based system that uses X

This is the third article in the series of XHTML, written by Scott Klein, which is aimed at beginner HTML starters. For the experts it details any differences between XHTML and HTML for tables. It is a basic introduction to tables in XHTML, which covers how to construct a table and the options ava

From its early days, Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services (e.g., HTML forms calling CGI scripts). The advent of XML has accelerated this development, and has sparked the emergence of numerous XML-based environments that enable Web services. These environmen

Vijay Kukreja writes a small Java program which uses Xalan and shows us how simple it is to do XML transformation. In the Part I he explains the problem and helps getting things ready. Part II focuses on the Java program and the input XML file. And in the final Part III the XSL file is explained lin

Message transfer of e-business applications struggled in the past due to incompatible component models such as CORBA and COM, as well as complex, competing message standards such as ANSI-X.12 or EDIFACT. XML lowers these traditional barriers because all you need for processing is an XML parser. XML

After suggesting that UIDs should be attached to elements to leave the choice of their names and language up to application designers, the debate on ebXML mailing lists has expanded to cover many points often discussed on XML forums — including the need for universal "names", the readabilit