by Mark Pilgrim – Atom is an up-and-coming format for editing, syndicating, and archiving weblogs and other episodic web sites. The final details are still being hashed out, but that’s never stopped me before, having written several articles about XHTML 2. To understand the problems that Atom is des
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W3C Publishes Draft Guidelines for Authoring Internationalized XHTML and HTML
The World Wide Web Consortium has issued an initial Working Draft for Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0. Produced by the Guidelines, Education & Outreach Task Force (GEO) of the Internationalization Working Group, the document describes and illustrates authoring techniqu
Free Chapter: Definitive XSL-FO
XSL-FO lets you describe page printouts of your XML documents. Download a sample chapter, “Floats and footnotes,” from Definitive XSL-FO.
Clean Up Your Schema for SOAP
by Shane Curcuru – As your repository of schemas grows, you need tools to manipulate and manage your schemas. The Eclipse XSD Schema Infoset Model has powerful querying and editing capabilities. This article shows you how to update a schema for use with SOAP by automatically converting attribute use
Who is using the fundamental facets of W3C XML Schema?
Michael Sperberg-McQueen posted on XML-DEV a question which seems as surprising as it is surrealistic: does anyone use fundamental facets of W3C XML Schema?
Elements and text in ContentHandler
by Brett McLaughlin – With a solid understanding of the SAX ContentHandler interface (which you can obtain by reading my previous tips), you are ready to perform useful tasks with SAX. The most common task, of course, is obtaining the textual content of a specific element, and then doing something w
microdom: an XML DOM Designed For HTML
This article introduces microdom, a XML DOM implementation written in Python which was designed for dealing with HTML’s legacy issues both when parsing and when generating documents.
Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
Book by Elliotte Rusty Harold – Learning the basic syntax of XML is easy enough, but learning how to use XML effectively could occupy a lifetime. Effective XML makes it possible to become a more effective programmer much sooner. It crystallizes the hard-won expertise of XML pioneers into 50 rules of
The demise of the XML database
By Phil Howard – When is an XML database not an XML database? Answer: when it’s an XML database. While you can still buy an XML database purely because it provides faster storage capability and greater functionality than a conventional database, all the erstwhile XML database vendors are increasingl
Interactive Microcontent
by Jon Udell – Now that Kimbro Staken, Sam Ruby, and Kingsley Idehen have demonstrated variations of the structured microcontent idea I’ve been exploring for the past few months, I’m wondering what’s next. Sure, it’s cool to be able to link to XPath queries for items on Intertwingly that cite me or
