(Rodolfo M. Raya) The first article in this series briefly explained the most relevant XML standards used in the localisation industry. This second part focuses on XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) and explains with practical examples how to use it for translating different kinds of d

(Edd Dumbill) Hero of the XML world this week, and appropriately named for the role, is Mike Champion. His contributions towards debate on XML standards and their creation have long been among the most enlightening and tolerable. Both of my summaries from the XML-DEV mailing list this week are taken

In this chapter, we will examine some approaches for taking an existing relational database and moving it to XML. With much of our business data stored in relational databases, there are going to be a number of reasons why we might want to expose that data as XML: –Sharing business data wit

(SimmoTech) This articles describes a problem I came across with XmlSerializer and the solution I eventually found. The ultimate solution is actually relatively simple but it took me nearly a full Thursday to figure out so the article is more about I how I got to the solution and the dead-ends o

(Benoît Marchal) After more than a year, the author returns to the XM (XSLT Make) project. He reports on changes with the Eclipse platform and embarks on a major update that will integrate XM more tightly with Eclipse. As a starting point, he looks into a simple interface enhancement that is often r

(Esther Schindler) It’s always refreshing to attend a deeply technical conference, at which the experts instruct each other, disagree publicly and challenge one another’s opinions. Instead of showing off shiny new functionality or imperfect features polished to a mirror surface, the developers a

(Manish Verma) Providing the right people with the right access to information is as important as (if not more important than) having the information in the first place. eXtensible Access Control Markup Language — or XACML — provides a mechanism to create policies and rules for controlling access

(Peter Mikhalenko) Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification (SSML 1.0), introduced in September 2004, is one of the standards enabling access to the Web using spoken interaction. It’s designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in web

(John Zukowski) Now that Tiger is an official release, it’s time to explore even more exciting differences between the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Standard Edition platform and 5.0 of the Java 2 Development Kit. In this installment of Taming Tiger, the author explores the newly available Ocean and Syn

(Kelly Brown) It’s almost impossible to pick up a trade magazine these days and not find a reference to XML. It’s an important enabling technology for the sophisticated Web applications of the future.