by Kimbro Staken – In my recent XML.com article, Introduction to Native XML Databases, I provided a general overview of native XML databases and what they might be good for. In this article we'll take a look at a native XML database implementation, the open source dbXML Core.

In this month's column, developer and author Benoît Marchal adds final features to the first release of XM, a low-cost open-source content management solution based on XSLT (in Java). New features in this revision manage download pages and tables of contents via a directory reader that makes use

The W3C, the Web’s governing body that determines the version of HTML, has decided that the next version of HTML (currently at 4.0) will be XHTML. The WAP Forum was involved in this and has decided that WAP 2.0 will be a subset of XHTML, called XHTML Mobile Profile. That means that both WAP and Web

By Rodolfo M. Raya – Need portable documents that, unlike most XML documents, include representation information? This article introduces XSL-FO (XML Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects) and explains how it can come to the rescue. To demonstrate the advantage of using XSL-FO, the article includes

By Stephen Withers – XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

By: Bas de Bakker and Irsan Widarto – Industry experts expect XQuery to do for XML and XML databases what SQL did for relational data and relational database systems: provide a vendor independent, powerful and easy-to-use method for query and retrieval of XML data.

This column, the third in a series, shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time. As the demonstration i

XML is increasingly being positioned as the next territory for the Microsoft/Oracle/IBM database war. However, the companies aren't telling you this, because none of them are very good at the technology yet.

X-Hive/DB is a state-of-the-art database for XML documents. It provides a revolutionary new way to store, retrieve and query them, and so is ideal for mission-critical applications requiring the storage of very large volumes of such documents.

By Eric van der Vlist – Mike Kay from Software AG gave a high level comparison between XSLT and XQuery at the fourth Forum XML, where he concluded that the main differences between the two languages were differences of culture and perspective, but also that XQuery was more ambitious than XSLT and wo