(Ian Palmer) PHP-to-XML projects can be either relatively straightforward or somewhat complex, depending on whom you ask. And now, as PHP becomes a familiar scripting environment for programmers working with and supporting XML, questions about the interoperability of both languages abound. This week

(Uche Ogbuji) OpenOffice.org is a mature, open source, front office applications suite with the advantage of a saved file format based on an open XML DTD. This gives users and developers an extraordinary amount of flexibility and power in dealing with work produced in OpenOffice.org. This article in

(Kurt Cagle, Dave Gibbons, David Hunter, Nikola Ozu, Jonathan Pinnock and Paul Spencer) We’ve discussed some of the reasons why XML makes sense for communicating data, so now let’s get our hands dirty and learn how to create our own XML documents. This chapter will cover all you need to know to crea

(Casey Kochmer and Erica Frandsen) No matter what the Web application, or where it’s implemented, it’s a safe bet to assume that there will be some reporting involved. Even applications that don’t have databases are likely to have some aspect of reporting. However, non-database systems are more like

(Ashish Shah and Rada Chirkova) We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of query processing on an XML interface of a relational database, for predefined query workloads. The main contribution of this paper is to show that selective materialization of data as XML views reduces query-e

With offices in Boston and Salt Lake City, a company called Forum Systems has devised what it calls a “XML-Sentient” suite of content security infrastructure “that actively guards information as it moves between and within enterprises – at the origin, during transmission, and after it reaches its de

(Karthik Ravindran) Tests executed and results obtained to verify the execution and performance of XSLT transformations during development and testing are often not fully representative of production use case scenarios encountered in a live environment. Troubleshooting XSLT transformations that perf

(Cristian Georgescu) XML is indisputably the long-awaited lingua franca for defining and transmitting structured data. With a little help from XSL, it can also generate C++ code for you.

(David Mertz) Beyond a few abandoned or incomplete efforts, three word processors are now available in actively maintained states. All do an excellent job as word processors; all provide a variety of useful import/export capabilities — including the widely used, but proprietary, Microsoft Word form

(Jason Hunter) To help you better understand how to correctly form XQuery queries, I focus in this article on important but tricky and commonly misunderstood aspects of the XQuery language. I warn you: Things will get hairy beyond this point. But it’s better to have fair warning of the complex parts