(John P. Hunt and Robert Bernard) Can topic-based DITA XML provide the basis for developing an information architecture for single-sourced XML learning content? This article builds directly on the rich background about reusable content and e-learning delivery in the learning and training fields. Her

(Christian Weyer) Today’s use of Web services in solutions doesn’t really realize the true potential of Web services. Oh yes. Web services programming is easy. Who likes those crazy angle brackets crossing their networks, anyway? Who is interested in all the fancy details of those elaborate speci

(James Snell) Get a technical overview of the popular Atom Syndication Format. This article discusses Atom’s technical strengths relative to other syndication formats, and offers several compelling use case examples that illustrate those strengths.

(Pushkar Varma) This article explores various styles for designing XML Schemas and assesses each style in terms of certain quality attributes. Figure 1 shows how an information model is transformed to a class model using JAXB, and shows which qualities of the artifacts should be assessed based on a

(Bob DuCharme) The two most well-known XSLT processors are probably the Apache project’s Xalan (available in both a Java and C++ version) and the Java-based Saxon, which was written by XSLT 2.0 specification editor Michael Kay. If those are the only two XSLT processors you currently use, it’s worth

In Microsoft XML (MSXML) 3.0, when you try to close the Microsoft Internet Explorer window that you are using to display Extended Markup Language (XML) data in an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) document, an access violation occurs.

(Roger Sperberg) The “X” in XML stands for “extensible.” It doesn’t stand for “expert” or “extreme.” But when I think of XML I always think of the Extreme Markup Languages conference as the place to become expert in XML. I say it’s where the graduate seminars in XML are held. The marketing slogan fo

(Doug Henschen) When Microsoft announced in June that the default file formats in the next-generation Office suite would be based on XML, there was reason to both hope and question whether open computing was headed for a major victory. If Office 12, slated for release next year, starts churning out

(ediazc) Recently one of our costumer needed we protect a log file from tampering. The requirement was to mantain a log file of the main activities made by the user insde the system. For different reasons, no database was allowed, so we needed to make this log using plain files. Some of the fiel

(Balaji B) XML Server can be a Web Server that stores the XML files in it and serves them on demand. The XML Server would have processing capabilities with an XML engine and to transform the XML document to other forms. Basically a server which hosts and serves the XML documents is called a XML Serv