Three closely aligned specifications governing XML naming and design rules have been approved for public release. Each of the NDR specifications builds upon the methodolgy and syntax-neutral object model specified by the Core Component Technical Specification (CCTS) published by UN/CEFACT in conjunc

(Robert D. Anderson, Don Day and Erik Hennum) The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) has emerged as a standard topic-oriented document architecture. DITA holds many advantages over information authored directly in HTML, including better reuse, easily changed presentation styles, and easy

Join us to learn how you can remove bottlenecks from the XML content creation process by using collaborative reviewing. Find out how your organization can meet federal and state regulations by automatically preserving an audit trail of reviewer comments and annotations across document drafts. Di

(Jayanthi Suryanarayana and Neil Tunnicliffe) Availability and performance are primary considerations when you’re developing distributed applications. But using data stores to address these concerns can result in problems with data synchronization between heterogeneous data stores. This article

(Stefano Mazzocchi, Stephen Garland and Ryan Lee) Browsing digital libraries today can be a difficult process of navigating through different interfaces and different terminologies for each collection visited. The SIMILE Project is working to make it easier to wander from collection to collectio

In Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Feature Pack 1, when you use the Import Catalog Wizard to import an XML catalog file and the XML catalog file validation fails, the list of errors is incomplete. The complete list of errors is displayed only when you save the errors to a file.

(Wellie Chao) Cocoon is a powerful tool for publishing content to multiple formats from XML. It can be used for static content, but its most powerful application is publishing dynamically generated XML streams. The XML streams can come from database information wrapped in XML tags, from XHTML We

Three options for handling XML data in the Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 environment are discussed, including usage scenarios and guidelines to help you choose between them.

Jean Paoli is a senior director of XML architecture at Microsoft Corporation and one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

(Soumitra Sengupta and Charlie Heinemann) Microsoft has decided not to ship a client-side XQuery implementation in the final version of .NET 2.0 Framework (“Whidbey”). After talking to customers, we realize that our customers expect us to ship an implementation that meets the following criteria: