(Mark Fussell) This article gets under the hood of the XmlResolver class in System.Xml and describes how to create your own implementations of XmlResolvers that allow you to retrieve XML documents from alternative data sources, such as embedded assembly resources or from a database using custom defi

(Tony Stewart) This article discusses some of the ways in which XML is uniquely suited to the news and media industry and outlines a few of the choices that you should consider when adopting XML.

(Bogdan Blaszczak) There is no doubt that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schemas enjoy quite a success. They are used in many major software environments and are applied to many domains, from finance to the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

(Edd Dumbill) This week’s XML Deviant is a tale of two specifications. One, a scruffy ragtag affair that barely seems to do the job. The other, a well-heeled, aristocratic sort of document, groomed for longevity. You know what’s coming next, of course. The tramp of which I speak, the unlikely RSS, g

(Dr. Hans Henseler) Native XML databases can be used to store XML document collections. Documents can be retrieved from such a database if their filepath is known. To enable contentbased document retrievel, each document should be loaded in an XML parser to check if the contents meet the specified

This step-by-step article describes how to raise a custom exception that exposes the method for dividing two numbers in a Web service and how to create a console application that consumes the Web Service and handles the custom exception.

(Alan Earls) Is XML an unstoppable tidal wave? Like most things, that depends on who you talk to. Ted Friedman, a principal analyst who covers database and business intelligence technologies at Gartner, says it’s worth recalling all the hype around the marketing of XML-enabled DBMS products two to t

(Michael Champion) Should emergency personnel and law enforcement be called to the scene of a suspected chemical warfare attack, the last thing these frontline workers will want to do is wrestle with incompatible IT systems. Therefore, the federal government is in the throes of linking databases sca

(Dare Obasanjo) This article describes how to use the Schematron XML validation language to enforce constraints on XML documents beyond the capabilities of the W3C XML Schema.

(John E. Simpson) The five weeks up to and including the middle of September were interesting (to say the least) here in sunny Florida. Depending on how you count, we had somewhere between three and five named tropical storms and hurricanes pummel our coastline and interior. We knew in advance t