(Elliotte Rusty Harold) The name of an XML file does not have to end in .xml. In fact, an XML document doesn’t have to be in a file at all. It can be a database record, a piece of a file, a transitory stream of bytes in memory that’s never written to disk, or a combination of several different files

(Doug Henschen) XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is fast moving from the vision phase to a practiced global standard, and it’s no longer a question of if but when it will be mandated by agencies including the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). This much was clear at the 11th

(Thom Robbins) Last week I had lunch with the application manager of a local customer that just completed their enterprise rollout of Office 2003. We had decided to meet and discuss possible ways his team could begin to utilize this deployment. As we sat down he explained that he had been talking to

(Uche Ogbuji) When multiple XML elements occur within another element, does element order matter? Whether it’s the order in which the parser reports elements to applications, or the question of whether or not to mandate specific order in schema patterns, things are not always as simple as they may s

(Paul Krill) IBM is unveiling XML-based tools and resources to be added to its alphaWorks program for free testing of technologies in development.

The W3C XML Core Working Group has produced a First Public Working Draft for XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1 and requests feedback from W3C Members and other interested parties. XLink Version 1.0 was approved as a W3C Recommendation in June 2001.

(Micah Dubinko) Previously, this column examined Web Forms 2.0, or WF2, a technical report recently presented to the W3C by Opera and the Mozilla Foundation. WF2 seeks to extend forms-related aspects of SGML-based HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.x.

(Vasant Raj) OPENXML provides an easy way to use an XML document as data-source to your procedures. OPENXML allows the data in XML document to be treated as columns and rows of your database table i.e., xml tags as columns and the value as rows. Data can be inserted / updated very quickly and effici

Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) is an XML-based graphic file format, which is best employed in data-driven and interactive environments. SVG is perfect for a number of applications that need to combine data and images, such as geographic or financial systems. This download explains the basic SVG s

(Martin LaMonica) While he doesn’t work in Microsoft’s Information Worker group, which oversees Office, Paoli does influence the development of the product. He’s a co-creator of the XML data formatting standard, and as the senior director of XML architecture at Microsoft, he’s involved with a wide r