(Ed Tittel) On January 18, 2005, a group of RSS users announced the release of RSS 1.1: RDF Site Summary. Though RSS is subject to multiple decodings, it’s usually interpreted as “Rich Site Summary,” “RDF Site Summary” (where RDF in turn stands for “Resource Description Format,”) or “Really Simple S

This sample script takes an XML file and an XSL file and combines them to produce whatever output you want. The sample files we use simply take some of our sample data and convert it to a basic HTML table, but you can use the same code to convert your data to whatever format you want… just by chan

(Indroniel Deb Roy) Enterprise applications such as banking, healthcare, and so on still use flat files to import/export data between applications. Flat files contain machine-readable data that is typically encoded in printable characters. There is a growing need for these applications to intera

(Bob DuCharme) In everything I’ve written in this column so far about XSLT 2.0, I’ve been cherry-picking—taking fun new features and plugging them into what were otherwise XSLT 1.0 stylesheets in order to demonstrate these features. As XSLT 2.0 and its companion specification XQuery 1.0 approach Rec

The National Security Agency (NSA) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have published Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) for public review.

(Wangming Ye) Part 2 of this series explores the source of common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. Follow along as the author analyzes the interop failures resulting from the use of certain data types and ways to overcome them such as collections, arrays,

(Greg Ross) The need to search and interpret machine-understandable data on the Web is becoming a high priority in a variety of industries–which is why Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Semantic Web could take the Web to a new level and open up entirely new fields of opportunity. (R)

(Uche Ogbuji) WordNet is a Princeton University project that aims to build a database of English words and lexical relationships between them. Such a tool is an excellent basis for semantic application in XML, like the synonym-aware searching example that was presented in an earlier installment of t

(Peter Sefton) If you are using any word processor or editor in a group situation, such as a technical writing team, or an office, then it will probably be in your interest to set up templates for authors to use to ensure consistency, reduce effort, and help automate conversation of documents betwee

(Martin Moser) Just write the HTML-Tag for the ASP.NET Control into the XSLT.