(Nigel McFarlane) n Rapid Application Development with Mozilla, Web, XML, and open standards expert Nigel McFarlane explores Mozilla’s revolutionary XML User interface Language (XUL) and its library of well over 1,000 pre-built objects. Using clear and concise instruction, McFarlane explains what co

(Deepak Vohra) XML documents are increasingly being used as a format of data exchange. But for an XML document to be acceptable to different developers/users, the XML document should conform to a standard structure. XML Schema is an XML-based representation of the structure of an XML document. T

(Bob DuCharme) This month I’m taking a break from covering XSLT 2.0 to describe how the combination of XSLT 1.0 and an application with an open XML format solved a problem for me. I solved this problem so quickly and easily that it got me thinking about how the combination of XSLT 1.0 and the increa

(Uche Ogbuji) The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. Uche Ogbuji conti

(Brian Kotek) Previously I explained how to create a function to recurse through a specific type of XML document and return the XML data in an array. It worked just fine, but I realized that the function could be made even more generic so that it could also handle any type of XML. Building on th

(John E. Simpson) I want two elements (QUESTION and ANSWER) to be declared in an external DTD. The QUESTION element’s data is to be displayed in red, and the ANSWER element’s data is to be displayed in green. For this, an external stylesheet needs to be used. How do I include the DTD in my HTML docu

(Eddie Robertsson) The Schematron schema language differs from most other XML schema languages in that it is a rule-based language that uses path expressions instead of grammars. This means that instead of creating a grammar for an XML document, a Schematron schema makes assertions applied to a spec

(Ronald Bourret) The XML namespaces recommendation defines a way to distinguish between duplicate element type and attribute names. Such duplication might occur, for example, in an XSLT stylesheet or in a document that contains element types and attributes from two different DTDs. An XML namespac

(Brian Schaffner) When storing XML documents in relational databases, you may experience difficulties depending on your approach and, in particular, the size of the documents. This column will examine some specific problems related to large XML documents and the techniques to overcome them. (R)

(Kevin Jones) he Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC) specification allows you to map Web service operations onto Java method calls through handlers, and you can use handlers to process SOAP headers for Web services applications. I discussed writing and configuring handlers for ge