When you print a Microsoft Office Word 2003 document that contains XML schema elements with placeholder text, the placeholder text always prints when you print the document.

The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group has released its first three Working Drafts for the Web Services Addressing specification, which provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages.

(Uche Ogbuji) I covered the data binding feature of David Mertz’s Gnosis Utilities in my earlier article, “XML Data Bindings in Python, Part 2”. As I mentioned, Gnosis Utilities is a Python package with a variety of utility classes for data management and especially for XML processing. Another usefu

(Gabriel Szabo) The AgConfig class enables binding of any public data member of any object into a control at design time. It automatically handles synchronization between a data member of an object and the contents of a bound control.

(Uche Ogbuji) Universal Business Language (UBL) is an XML business information interchange and transaction format that has made a few appearances in this column. UBL just reached a major milestone in its 1.0 release, which brings about a few more developments and some changes to the XML representati

(Brian Barbash) XML’s surface-level simplicity hides a deceptively complex beast. At first glance, creating an XML document does not take a lot of effort. Create some tags, ensure they are well-formed, and that’s it. Throw in a DTD or Schema and now there are a set of rules against which the documen

(Nathan Willis) The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is the formalized incarnation of the Jabber instant message protocol. But what exactly does that formalization mean? And why should you care?

This code sample demonstrates how multiple RSS feeds can be combined, parsed, and displayed using the XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter classes in the .NET framework. It can display all items found in one or more RSS feeds or display only a few items in a random manner. Ben Miller (Microsoft MVP L

(Peter Sefton) A recent article on the O’Reilly Network showed how to edit XML using Word 2003, as long as your target XML format was not too far-removed from the built-in structural limitations of a word processor, and last year there was a survey of solutions on XML.com. But since Word 2000d, it h

(Bob DuCharme) I love the free picture-sharing website flickr. I love how I can upload pictures and add as much or as little descriptive metadata as I wish. I can point anyone to these pictures, and they can just view them with no need to register. (For example, see these alien head prizes in Cape M