(Rizwan Virk) XML has become a buzzword that’s so over-used that it’s difficult to understand when it might and when it might not be appropriate. In general, the main reason for XML’s popularity is that it provides an underlying technology that gives “portability” of information across platforms,

(Nicholas Chase) In the creation of a database, a data model and integrity constraints can create certainty in the structure and content of the data. But how do you enforce that kind of control when your data is just text in hand-editable files? Fortunately, validating files and documents can make s

(Jon Udell) In earlier installments of this column, I made the case for exploiting the combination of XHTML and CSS, and I demonstrated a browser-based technique for searching XHTML/CSS content using XPath. I’ve been using a variation of this technique on my weblog. It works, and it’s been a revelat

(Mary Jo Foley) Microsoft watchers are questioning yet again Microsoft’s intentions toward XML, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) Extensible Markup Language standard. Last year, Microsoft released publicly its Word 2003, Excel 2003 and InfoPath 2003 XML schemas. The company made the schemas free

(Ronald Bourret) This is a list of resources about XML data binding.

(Jon Udell) I recently found a picture of the panelists at the XML DevCon 2001 session entitled “The Importance of XML.” My body language told the story: I wasn’t a happy camper. Of course I agreed with all the reasons the panel thought XML was important: for web services, for interprocess communica

(Greg Robidoux and Jeremy Kadlec) XML (Extensive Markup Language) has been defined by the World Wide Web Consortium and has become the defacto standard to exchange data between organizations, replacing file width text files, as well as the previous EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standard. XML is

(Uche Ogbuji) This column has touched on some advanced XML processing topics, but I keep coming back to basics. The reason for this is that the two most common XML processing tasks for Python users are to extract particular data fields from XML files and to generate XML in order to feed another prog

(Jesus Rodriguez) In the past few years SOAP has emerged as one of the most widely used standards in distributed environments. Far beyond communicating with objects in remote leases, it may also define an extensible XML messaging framework to exchange XML messages between Internet objects. According

(Vance McCarthy) BEA wants to jump-start the Java community’s work on supporting XML standards and dev tools. Concerned that today’s Java efforts are moving too slowly, BEA has handed over its internally developed XMLBeans technologies to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). “XML support is an