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XmlCsvReader

MSDN has released a code sample for an XmlCsvReader. This sample sample implementation of an XmlReader that parses tab-delimited .csv files and presents their contents as a stream of XML elements; XmlReader is the Microsoft .NET Framework base class for all managed stream-level XML processing.

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XOM: New tree-based XML API

Elliotte Rusty Harold has announced a new tree-based XML API, XOM (from the generic term XML object model), which he describes as “closest in spirit to JDOM” and representing an “effort to synthesize the best features of the existing APIs while eliminating the worst”.

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Get ready for XForms

Traditional HTML forms violate many of the tenets of good markup language design, frequently mixing presentation and data. In this article, Joel Rivera and Len Taing introduce you to XForms, an extension of XHTML that represents the next generation of Web forms. Though XForms is still in an embryoni

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Introducing HLink

by Kendall Grant Clark – When the first public XHTML 2.0 Working Draft was released in early August, one of the most common reactions, at least in the XML developer community, was to wonder why the HTML Working Group (HWG) wasn’t using XLink. XHTML 2.0’s refusal to use XLink as its hypertext linking