(Michael Daconta) Taxonomies have long played a central role in both medical and library science for the classification of medical terms and books. Recently, the U.S. federal government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model (D

(Uche Ogbuji) This tip shows you how to use the functions module from EXSLT, the community standard in XSLT extensions, and how this technique further improves lookup tables by packaging code into easily reusable functions.

(Uche Ogbuji) As part of my roundup of Python data bindings, I introduced my own Anobind project. Over the column’s history, I’ve also developed other code to meet some need emphasized in one of the previous articles. I recently collected all of these various little projects together into one open s

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Document Type Definitions (DTDs) are an outgrowth of XML’s heritage in the Standardized General Markup Language (SGML). SGML was always intended for narrative-style documents: books, reports, technical manuals, brochures, Web pages, and the like. DTDs were designed to serve t

(Alok Mehta) Microsoft Office 2003 contains powerful XML-based functionality, including Web services integration. For example, using the Web services capabilities of Office 2003, developers can create a variety of solutions that help users increase their productivity on eBay. Web services offere

(Joab Jackson) Extensible markup language consulting firm Starbourne Communications Design is tackling a job that agency XML advocates have long lobbied for, but have never gotten the funding to execute: building a central registry of federal XML schemas.

(Clint Boulton) The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published three new standards to help vendors such as Microsoft, IBM and BEA Systems improve Web services performance for customers.

(Håkon Wium Lie and Michael Day) Longtime readers of XML.com will remember the battles between XSL and CSS that took place in these columns in 1999 and that were memorialized in XSL and CSS: One Year Later. Since then, the two languages have coexisted in relative peace: CSS is now used to style most

(Ning Yan and Ajay Raina) Find out how to internationalize your PDF documents. This article describes a way to dynamically generate PDF documents in Java Web applications using open source technologies, with an emphasis on generating double-byte PDF documents. The approach described fits the popular

When you use an XML document that contains an attribute or an element with a decimal value such as 0.00001, the schema marks that attribute or element as a decimal. If you use the DataSet.ReadXML method to read an XML file, and then you use the DataSet.WriteXML method to write the value back to the