By Jason Brooks – With broad new support for XML, expanded collaboration capabilities and a raft of usability improvements, Microsoft Corp.’s Office 2003 is better in every way than the version it replaces.

by Daniel Zambonini – In this article we’ll introduce some of the XML family members and discuss how they relate to one another. We’ll then use these technologies to create a diagram of their relationships in order to demonstrate how they work together in practice. Of the hundreds of XML technologie

Members of the OASIS standards body plan to collaborate on the development of a “deployment template” for Web services that is vendor-neutral and spans a number of computing platforms.

by Claude Duguay – In this second of two installments, continue building an interface for containers that bundle XML documents for efficient delivery or logical clustering.

by Bob DuCharme – There’s actually some good, even if ironic, news about data typing support in XSLT 2.0: if you’re still using DTDs, and you’re putting off a move to any schema format, you can use XSLT 2.0 stylesheets to add datatype checking to your system, further postponing a move to schemas.

By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday delivered a cornerstone of its Speech Interface Framework when it published VoiceXML 2.0. VoiceXML is intended to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response , or IVR, applicati

In this tip, Benoît Marchal discusses a pragmatic approach to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Until the SVG viewer becomes as ubiquitous as the Macromedia Flash player, it will be difficult to incorporate SVG images directly into a Web site. In the meantime, Web developers benefit from generating JP

Interesting discussion between Daniel Veillard and Havoc Pennington on the GNOME XML mailing list.

By Paul Roberts – The OASIS Internet standards consortium said that its members ratified SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Version 1.1 as an official standard, approving changes to the specification will improve interoperability with other Web services security standards.

You can use XML Bulk Load to insert records into tables that use identity columns. Here is a simple example to demonstrate how this can be done. First create a table in your database.