(Jim Clune) Knowing how to implement transport layer security (TLS) does not guarantee secure Web services. Certificate mismanagement, man-in-the-middle attacks, and XML attacks could compromise the security of your TLS implementation unless you understand how these attacks are executed and you cons

(Erik Meißner) In complex authoring environments the usage of XML with its richer structure is a real advantage. But there is an almost infinite number of possiblities for our structure. If we add a DTD (like in SGML) to our XML-environment we can control the almost infinite number possibilities. Th

This step-by-step article describes how to do bulk inserts and updates with different Microsoft .NET data providers by using the OpenXML method. Although the sample in this article uses the SqlClient managed provider, you can also use the OLEDB or the ODBC managed provider.

(Greg Watson) This article focuses on how to validate an XML document against an XML Schema and a DTD at the same time. Additionally, the article focuses on how to transition from using DTDs exclusively to using both XML Schemas and DTDs. This type of transition is especially important for organizat

(Dimitrios Markatos) Unless you happened to be involved in some other career field, it would almost impossible to not realize that XML is steadily growing as a common data exchange format that can used be across any platform. As long as you conform to standard XML specifications, you can send your X

(Dan Wahlin) Extensible Markup Language (XML) has evolved considerably in its short five-year history. It started out as a simple way to mark up data and relied on seasoned technologies for data validation, such as document type definitions (DTDs). As XML has matured, the World Wide Web Consortium (

(Kendall Grant Clark) Writing about XML invites a certain humanistic pretension, for several reasons. First, all this talk of universality and frictionless information exchange bears uncanny allusions, for those of us who inhabit certain parts of the ideological landscape, to what Christians used to

(Alex Hildyard) Recently, I was working on the user interface for a tool to maintain an online catalog. Because the catalog featured so many products, it made sense to categorize them in some way. The catalog administrator would need the ability to delete and define new categories, nest categories w

(Berthold Daum) This tip shows how to parse XML documents efficiently with the Streaming API for XML (StAX), using the StAX reference implementation deployed with the specification. Berthold Daum explains the two API layers available with StAX: the iterator-style API and the cursor-based API. XML

(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