by John B. O'Donahue – One of the most interesting new developments in XML processing has been the introduction of the Xbean. Xbeans are small and simple software components that take XML as input and process it in some way, passing XML on to the next Xbean. This approach lends itself very well

Using XSLT to produce HTML pages becomes more and more popular. In our last column we examined an approach that dynamically generates content out of a servlet engine. Many Web sites still only serve static pages that have been uploaded through FTP, though. With the subsequently introduced XMLcmNOW,

The Open ebXML Project have released tools supporting document generation for ebXML Business Process Analysis worksheets, and Finetix have released an open source tool for processing FpML, the financial products markup language.

This chapter is designed to put XSLT in context. It's about the purpose of XSLT and the task it was designed to perform. It's about what kind of language it is, and how it came to be that way; and it's about how XSLT fits in with all the other technologies that you are likely to use in

The CD contains articles on XML and Web services, tutorials on transforming XML documents and messaging with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), related IBM white papers, and more.

by Wei Meng Lee – Most XML developers are familiar with using Document Type Definitions (DTDs)—a schema that defines the content model of an XML document—to enforce the structure of XML documents. However, DTD has several shortcomings. First, it is not an XML document, so XML parsers do not process