by David Mertz – In this tip, David tells you when not to use heavyweight XML APIs. Standard XML APIs like SAX, DOM, and XSLT provide sophisticated ways of transforming and manipulating XML documents. But each of them is also complex enough to warrant several-hundred page specification documents, an

The recent publication of three W3C documents, XForms Proposed Recommendation, XML Events Proposed Recommendation, and xml:id Requirements may mark a new trend toward fewer standalone XML vocabularies and more "building block" specifications.

By Kate Gregory – In my last column, I showed you how to use MSXML4, the COM component that parses, searches, and generates XML, to work with XML in a "classic Visual C++" application. This time around I’m going to tackle the same tasks, but use the .NET Framework to process XML.

by Kendall Grant Clark – The old chestnut of a binary encoding for XML has cropped up once more, this in time in serious consideration by the W3C. Kendall Clark comments on the announcement of the W3C’s Binary XML Workshop.

by J.V.Ravichandran – XML is pretty easy if you know HTML in the sense that both a re tags but that is about as much similarity you will find between the two so, how is it easy ? It is easy because each attribute in Xml is like a tag in HTML so, the basics in syntax, at least, is […]