(Bill Trippe) XML authoring has long been viewed as difficult and arcane, and best left to specialists using complex thick-client software. Indeed, in some markets and applications, such as developing technical documentation for aircraft or automobiles, today’s preferred XML tools look and act much

(Uche Ogbuji) Flickr probably needs no introduction for readers of this column. It’s a hugely popular social-network site owned by Yahoo, focusing on sharing of photographs. It embodies most of the the current web buzzwords, including tagging, web feeds, AJAX, and accessibility to scripts. Flick

(Paulo Morgado) This article will show you how to process XML sub-trees when using XmlReaders and XmlWriters in the .NET Framework 1.1.

Moving beyond mere HTML into the much more capable world of CSS and XHTML is not as daunting a task as you might think. This chapter from Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML, by Elisabeth and Eric Freeman explains CSS tags and XHTML elements in easy to understand language backed by examples and sample

(Paulo Morgado) This article will show how to fork XML processing when using XmlReaders and XmlWriters in .NET Framework 1.1.

(Steven R. Brandt) XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ jaxp.jar and parser.jar libraries are 1.4 MB each. If you are running with limited memor

(Matteo Casati) A lot of talking about AJAX is taking place here and there; AJAX is the acronym of “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”, a technology based on XMLHttpRequest, which is now supported by all main browsers. The basic idea is quite simple – and not actually a breakthrough – but it allows up

(GrahamAsher) Unicode, Inc., administers and maintains the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), in which are stored XML files containing locale information, including collation tailorings, for many different locales. The format of the XML files is called Locale Data Markup Language (LDML).

Since the XML presentation syntax in itself does not rely on the syntax of RDF, namespace declaration of the XML syntax dose not have to include RDF-related namespace such as ‘xmlns:rdf’ and ‘xmlns:rdfs’ in contrast to the declaration for the RDF/XML syntax.

(Edward Tanguay) This code shows the simplest way to automatically convert the information in an object to an XML file and back into an object. This is useful if you need to make information available web-server like on your server for other applications to pick it up. I just cut the significant par