(Mark Levene and Peter Wood) XML is becoming the universal language for communicating information on the Web and has gained wide acceptance through its standardisation. As such XML plays an important enabling role for dynamic computation over the Web. Compression of XML documents is crucial in this

(Andrew Donoghue) A new XML-based reporting language could improve companies’ reporting of their businesses’ social and environmental impact, according to a report from the United Nations.

(Paul Ford) As I write this, the outcome of the elections in the United States it entirely uncertain. But, eventually, someone must win. Let’s imagine it’s George W. Bush. How would we define him in RDF?

(Nigel McFarlane) In Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, Web, XML, and open standards expert Nigel McFarlane explores Mozilla’s revolutionary XML User interface Language (XUL) and its library of well over 1,000 pre-built objects. Using clear and concise instruction, McFarlane explains what c

(ceperez) Developers are pretty familiar with the term premature optimization. If you’re unfamliar with the term, then just think of it as a bad thing. Premature optimization happens when a developer over zealously optimizes code before running system wide performace tests. For novices and peopl

(Priscilla Walmsley and Charles Goldfarb) This chapter is an overview of the XML features of Office. We discuss the XML-enabled Office products – Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and the newly introduced InfoPath – in the context of several information sharing scenarios.

This tip helps to read configuration information in an XML file. Using XPath, the values can be read simply and the value is fetched from the file as CString.

A new XML standard is being proposed that will enable the Homeland Security Department to communicate with various governmental agencies. EDXL, it is argued, is needed today since individual XML schemas continue to evolve, without any standardized framework ensuring their compatibility.

(Niel Bornstein) The iTunes music player and download service took the world by storm in 2003 and 2004, and promises to continue its popularity for the forseeable future. While the music is stored in simple files on disk, metadata — information about the music — is stored in a single XML file.

(Alex Hildyard) XAML is an XML-based markup language that describes UI content and behavior. The concept is similar to the combination of HTML and JavaScript used in Web applications today, but far more ambitious. “Avalon” is the codename for the runtime that interprets XAML documents and turns them