(Rahul Srivastava) As defined by the W3C Namespaces in XML Recommendation, an XML namespace is a collection of XML elements and attributes identified by an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI); this collection is often referred to as an XML "vocabulary." One of the primary motivations for

(Edd Dumbill) In this week’s XML-Deviant, we take a look at two conversations on the XML-DEV mailing list that highlight XML’s disruptive aspect — more specifically, the disturbance XML can cause to the dominant incumbent in a technology area in which XML is being introduced.

(Sonu Kapoor) Let’s say your XML looks like this: <Link>default.aspx?ID=13</Link>

(Suhil Srinivas) This article gives a background to build procedural application for longhorn. The simple application that would be built as we go will give a developer a good understanding of how to go about writing a procedural application.

(Elena Litani and Michael Glavassevich) Write your application to get the best possible performance, plus learn which SAX or DOM operations and features affect application performance. In this first of a three-part article, the authors describe best practices for writing XML apps and documents, and

(Dare Obasanjo) This article discusses what considerations you should make when versioning XML formats, as well as covering some approaches to designing extensible XML formats in a manner compatible with existing XML technologies.

(Dare Obasanjo) An XML vocabulary should be designed in such a way that the applications that process it do not break when it is inevitably changed. One of the primary benefits of using XML for building data interchange formats is that the APIs and technologies for processing XML are quite resilient

(Stanimir Stanev) XSLT works pretty good to transform XML documents, but the things are getting much better when we are able to pass arguments to the XSL. This article will show how arguments can be passed without server side logic involved.

(Aaron Skonnard) Microsoft has recently released Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) 2.0. WSE 2.0 provides extensions to the existing ASP.NET Web services framework (.asmx) as well as a standalone messaging framework that’s completely transport independent. The WSE 2.0 Technology

(Edd Dumbill) This installment of XML Watch concludes the development of a vocabulary for describing open source software projects, exploring the documentation, tools, and community that are required for the successful launch of the DOAP vocabulary. The steps taken are drawn from the author’s experi