(Dan Frumin) XML has penetrated every aspect of business applications, from data interchange to presentation logic using tools like XSLT. It seems that if an application doesn’t use XML, something is missing. But none of this is enough to unseat the reigning champion of storage: the database.

(Roger Jennings) Moving your data-access applications to ADO.NET and XML Web services from traditional ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and OLE DB providers presents new challenges for you and your organization’s database architects and database administrators (DBAs). The .NET Framework’s System.Data.

Reactivity Inc., Belmont, Calif., released the latest version of its XML firewall appliance. The Reactivity XML Firewall 2300 series features integrated hardware SSL acceleration from nCipher and is available now in both production and developer versions.

Corel Corporation has teamed with Oracle to build and deliver a complete solution to enable the creation, storage and delivery of XML content and SVG Smart Graphic applications. Demonstrated at Oracle World Paris this week, the solution integrates the Oracle Database 10g with Corel’s XML tools, Core

by Kendall Grant Clark – Simon St.Laurent — a book editor for O’Reilly — started the conversation on the XML-DEV mailing list as a result, or so I suspect, from his having attended various editorial meetings leading up to O’Reilly’s FOO Camp earlier in the month. I was fortunate enough to attend o

XQuery is not only a query language, but also a language that can do fairly general processing of XML. It is a strongly typed language that works well with data that may be strongly or weakly typed. Because the types used in XQuery are the same types used in XML and XML Schema, the type system is a

The second edition of Bob Stayton’s DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, covering “all aspects of DocBook XML publishing tools, including installing, using, and customizing the XSL stylesheets and processing tools”, is now available in paperback book form.

by Brett McLaughlin – This tip breaks down each method in the org.xml.sax.ContentHandler interface, explaining the purpose and usage of each callback, and its relation to an XML parsing event. You will understand the arguments to each method, and the information passed from a SAX parser to its regis

By Eric B. Parizo – Protocol analysis expert Laura Chappell offers her thoughts on common network security mistakes, XML traffic monitoring and the merits of teaching “black hat” techniques.

Version 1.1 of the .NET framework supports today’s mainstream XML technologies including DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XPath, SOAP 1.1, DOM Level 2, and XML namespaces. While version 2 of the framework continues to support these technologies (and newer versions where appropriate), it also contains integra