(PG Bartlett) A successful XML publishing project inspired this article. The project’s leader, who claims that the financial return gained for his company “made his career” there, achieved success for two reasons: he focused on the right goals and executed the project in the right way. This arti

(Paula Rooney) In a move designed to please the European Commission and governments globally, Microsoft announced on Monday that it would make its Office 2003 XML reference schemas available on a royalty-free basis beginning in early December. The decision, which follows Microsoft’s discussions

(Michael M. David) This two-part article will change your view and understanding of standard SQL and its ability to integrate naturally and fully with native XML. The perceived problem with achieving full SQL-based integration of XML is that relational data is flat while XML data is hierarchical, pr

(Mark Hachman) Hewlett-Packard Co. will introduce a “smart paper” technology as a part of a forms management solution for enterprise customers. Slated for announcement at Comdex Las Vegas 2003, the HP scheme could cut forms costs by as much as a third, sources said. HP will introduce its Forms A

(Ravikiran Muvva) In today’s world XML is the popular medium for exchanging data. To make use of that XML Data, it is very important for the sender and receiver to understand and manipulate data. Currently the most popular APIs available for manipulating the XML Documents are DOM and SAX. In this ar

(Brian Schaffner) The XSLT-SL project provides a rich set of functions that you can use within your XSL stylesheets. These functions include string manipulation, node processing, URI processing, and date functions. This article looks at some of the date functions and how you can use them in your sty

(Kurt Cagle) When you combine XML, which is essentially an open data format independent of any specific data-formatting language, with a universal addressing mechanism such as URLs, great things happen. These two factors together make the endpoints of a transaction transparent to the kind of technol

(Benoit Marchal) Contrary to what you might think, not every document is initially written in XML. Actually, most documents are prepared with some other tool and later converted to XML. Many documents originate from relational databases such as DB2, or from Microsoft Office applications such as Word

(Rajendra Pande) With XML (eXtensible Markup Language) rapidly becoming a standard way to describe and transfer data on the Web—especially in B2B transactions—applications that can read XML data and incorporate it in a database are becoming more and more important. When your applications can handle

(Micah Dubinko) Despite the name, XForms is being used for many applications beyond simple forms. In particular, creating and editing XML-based documents is a good fit for the technology. A key advantage of XML-based documents over, say, paper or word processor templates, is that an entirely elec