By Kevin Williams – This column takes a look at how to use XLink pointers when representing data to make XML documents more compact and flexible. Sample code shows examples of an invoice with and without the XLink pointers, plus an example of using XLinks with a URL-addressable database.

by Claude Duguay – XML provides a vehicle for representing virtually any kind of data collection. Organized structures can be thought of as languages that may be interpreted, such as a collection of business rules. We'll look at simple Java-based tools that help you get more mileage out of both

The Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV) is a Java[tm] technology tool to validate XML documents against several kinds of XML schemata. It supports RELAX NG, RELAX Namespace, RELAX Core, TREX, XML DTDs, and a subset of XML Schema Part 1. This download package includes binaries, sample source code, a

by A. Russell Jones – Ever since Microsoft released Active Server Pages (ASP), people have been using it to display database data in HTML-formatted tables—and arguing about the most efficient method. Now that XSLT has joined the race, I wanted to know whether using XSLT could have any effect on effi

By Howard Katz – Howard Katz introduces the W3C's XQuery specification, currently winding its way toward Recommendation status after emerging from a long incubation period behind closed doors. The complex specification consists of six separate working drafts, with more to come. This article prov