(Edd Dumbill) Welcome to this week’s column, in which I’m excited to be able to tell you about changes in prospect for next year’s XML Europe conference, and report on a discussion about when multiple schemas for XML documents should be used.

When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) program that calls an XML Web service method, you may receive the following error message: Run-time error ‘-2147221504 (80040000)’: Client:Unspecified client error.

(Kevin Yank) XML is springing up all over the Internet as a means to create standard data formats for the exchange of information between systems, irrelevant of their platform or technology. As you may already know, XML allows you to define your own custom markup languages similar to HTML and suited

(Scott Mitchell) Let’s face it, one of the primary tasks we, as Web developers, are faced with is querying data from some data store and allowing users to view and/or manipulate the information via a Web interface. Typically, the data stores that we query from are traditional relational databases, l

This tagset works with the Output Delivery System (ODS) and PROC PRINT, or with the LIBNAME engine. Using ODS is the simplest way. The prerequisite is that you have two data sets: one with the XML document’s metadata, and one with the all of the items. See the PROC PRINT output of an example.

(Bob DuCharme) Last month we looked at XSLT’s role in the reference implementation for Schematron, a schema language that lets you express many constraints that can’t be expressed in RELAX NG (RNG) or the W3C Schema language (XSD). Instead of defining an entire schema, Schematron rules usually s

(Oliver Steele) In ‘A Fresh Canvas’ I argued that there’s a human-factors advantage to allowing an XML document to contain names from multiple namespaces without requiring namespace prefixes on the elements from all but one of them. In ‘What’s in a Namespace’ I looked at how namespaces and namespace

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) When all you have is a hammer, most problems look a lot like nails. Since you’re reading this book, I’m willing to bet that Java is your hammer of choice, and indeed Java is a very powerful hammer. But sometimes you really could use a screwdriver, and this may be one of those

(Frank Rice) Microsoft Office 2003 adds a number of significant features for working with XML data. This article explores the XML-related objects, methods, and properties for Microsoft Office Access 2003. Detailed information on these new members is provided as well as code samples illustrating thei

(Michael S. Mimoso) OASIS’ ratification this week of the Universal Business Language 1.0 (UBL) gives the business world a means of standardizing common business documents necessary to the order-to-invoice process. Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems XML architect and chairman of the UBL technical commit