The past couple days have prepared you for what’s coming up now—the creation of valid XML documents. Unlike with HTML, where a browser can check HTML because it knows all about legal HTML, you create your own markup in XML, which means that an XML processor can’t check your markup unless you let it

XML Namespaces provide a method to avoid element name conflicts.

(Faisal Khan) XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML can be used in many ways and one of which is ‘data storage’. This is the one we will be exploring in this article. XML along with XSL ( Extensible Stylesheet Language ) can by used to present data on the web pages. XML provides the data an

(Jayram Tallamraju) XSLT is an excellent technology that adds more power to XML. XSLT is a language by itself like most other programming languages. It is the language to transform source data structure to destination data structure and may not be suitable to implement business logic. This means tha

“The world has gone crazy with XML and then Web services,” writes Sun’s senior IT architect Victoria Livschitz, in an article currently to be found on the official Sun Web site.

(Kevin Migliozzi) The Web has become the world’s greatest repository of information on anything and everything. It’s extremely useful – as long as you can find what you’re looking for.

(Joris Evers) Microsoft Corp. is giving users a chance to test enhancements to its InfoPath XML forms manager. Microsoft plans to deliver those enhancements as part of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Office 2003 products in late June.

(Thomas Powell & Joe Lima) This three-part series outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to Website acceleration according to the two simple laws of Web performance: –Send as little data as possible –Send it as infrequently as possible

(Raghav H. Nayak) ADO.NET was designed to meet the needs of this new programming model: disconnected data architecture, tight integration with XML, common data representation with the ability to combine data from multiple and varied data sources, and optimized facilities for interacting with a datab

(Uche Ogbuji) A recent conference on XML in the financial services industry was an occasion for sober reflection on XML in the real world. Is XML finding its way into practical solutions? What best practices are guiding the adoption of XML? In this column, Uche Ogbuji ponders XML through the prism o