(Douglas Reilly) Don Demsak is a developer and consultant who serves the developer community by his participation in user group activities and Code Camps throughout the area. Don also loves XML and is a tireless advocate for using it in the right way. He is one of a relatively small number of XML Mi

(Pradeep Chopra and Hari Vignesh Padmanaban) This is the second part of a three-part tutorial series designed specifically for those interested in taking the IBM Certified Solution Developer Exam for XML and Related Technologies. This tutorial follows up on the lessons in Part 1 by introducing t

(A. Russell Jones) Microsoft announced that the default file format for the next version of its Office Suite would be XML. That’s default as in, by default, Office will save files in its Office Open XML format, not in the ubiquitous binary—and proprietary—form that’s been the hallmark of Office up t

(Brett McLaughlin) Part 1 of this two-part series introduced the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and its parsing and validation features. JAXP also offers Java programmers the ability to transform XML documents using Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). Through both direct programmatic acces

(Robert Barta) Work on TMQL started more than a year ago, kicked off by a number of proposals. The editors have attempted to consolidate these approaches into an official draft specification. It is still in flux but sufficiently mature now to justify asking for public feedback. In this introduction

(Elliotte Harold) Because XML systems often accept and process data from many different sources, it’s important to consider the effect bad data may cause if it’s intentionally or unintentionally injected into the system. Although validation and well-formedness checking provide a substantial amount o

(Alex Homer) It must be tough for companies that develop software for working with XML. No sooner do they get a product out of the door, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) changes the recommendations and standards so that their product is out of date. Yet the manufacturers still have to maintain ba

(Steve Green) This article will show you how to parse XML files on WinCE using MSXML 3.0, a XML parser from Microsoft.

(Micah Dubinko) In this XML-Deviant column, I reflect on the recent XTech conference in Amsterdam, May 25-27, 2005. The conference used to be called ‘XML Europe’, but under the guidance of conference chair Edd Dumbill, this year’s event got a new name as well as two new conference tracks: Open Data,

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) The final part of this series discusses accessing XML data using Visual Studio .NET 2003 IDE. With the introduction of SQLXML3.0, the capabilities of XML data retrieval are vastly extended. The article discusses this topic using the Visual Studio.NET 2003 IDE and provides hel