(Uche Ogbuji) This article reflects on several noteworthy presentations at the recent XMLOpen conference in Cambridge, England, a rich technical symposium of XML processing topics. Noteworthy topics included XML metrics, Semantic Web, XML pipelines, Web Proper Names, and data types. The author a

(Edd Dumbill) As XML camp followers, you’ll know that discussion in the XML community is characterised by a serious of dominant recurring topics, so-called “permathreads.” Many of these topics have their roots in XML pre-history, and none more so than the topic of linking. One of the original tr

(Mike Downen and Shawn Farkas) The XML Signature and XML Encryption standards are being used extensively as building-block technologies. Microsoft Office InfoPath uses XML signatures to sign partial or whole forms. Web services use XML signatures to sign SOAP messages and XML encryption to encry

(Seshu Kumar Adiraju and Srinivas Thonse) Reporting is an important functionality in software business applications and is now increasingly required for XML data. Applications typically generate reports by extracting relevant information from a database.

(David Orchard) XML is designed for the creation of languages based upon self-describing markup. The inevitable evolution of these languages — by adding, deleting, and changing parts — is called versioning. To make versioning work in practice is one of the most difficult problems in computing, wit

(Cynthia Carolina) This article provides an introduction to the XML Stylesheet Transformations.XSLT is defined as a language for transforming source XML documents into another document formats using XML Path Language (XPath) as a query language.

Your enterprise is only as good as the meta data that supports it. Join David Marco, founder and president of EWSolutions for an informative and eye-opening session on the Managed Meta Data Environment (MME). A MME is vital for any organization looking to manage the complexity of their IT environm

This article illustrates how you can bind the Office Chart component to an ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) recordset that is persisted in Extensible Markup Language (XML).

(Nakul Goyal) This article explains in a very simple manner how you can use XML in ASP and VB. Since the inception of XML people many developers have wondered why we need XML… How is it better than HTML? For starters, XML is far more powerful than HTML, and that power resides in the “X” in XML (wh

In this article, we’ll show you how to use ASP.NET code to dynamically build an XML file, and then apply that knowledge to create an RSS-compliant news file that you can publish on your site (or even decipher with the RSS reader you created last time). (R)