by Kendall Grant Clark – In February, roughly coincident with XML’s five year anniversary as a technology standard, I wrote an XML-Deviant column (“The Pace of Innovation”) in which I discussed the future of XML, focusing on what is widely thought to be a slackening of the pace of its innovation. Pe

Watch Tim Ewald as he tours MSDN’s new XML pipeline, exploring how we use schemas, XPath, and XSLT to implement logic declaratively, along with a look at MSDN’s next steps.

by Kurt Cagle – In a radical change from XPath 1.0, XPath 2.0 changes the way nodes are represented and allows you to incorporate logic into XPath expressions.

XBRL (short for eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an XML-based standard for handling corporate financial information. This article explains what XBRL is, provides an introduction to some of it’s uses, and provides links to a number of XBRL related resources for you to continue learning abou

by Benoît Marchal – This tip demonstrates how to convert HTML documents to XML (or more specifically, XHTML) with a simple, open source tool, HTML Tidy. This conversion is useful for webmasters who are migrating to XML. It can also help XML converts who have to interface with legacy HTML tools.

Validating XML editor for Java with a word processor UI, spell checking, document outline view,drag and drop for structure modiication, WXS and DTD support, WebDAV and FTP publishing. Improvements to validation and support for edit/select using XPath. Some bug fixes.

by Ivelin Ivanov – XQuery has earned a reputation for being for one of the most cautiously developed and, therefore, slowest evolving W3C standards. A key reason is that there is little industry experience in the retrieval of information stored in XML. Many companies are still innovating in this fie

By David Becker – Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a very specific mission when they set out to define a new standard seven years ago. They needed a new format for Internet-connected systems to exchange data, a task being handled with increasing awkwardness by HyperTe

By Hitesh Seth – So far in our introductory series on SALT (Speech Application Language Tags) we have learned the basic architecture of SALT-based applications. In the previous article in the series we took a closer look at the components of Microsoft .NET Speech SDK (Beta 2) and a brief introductio

by Mark Pilgrim – Microsoft recently announced Microsoft.com Web Services, through which developers can get programmatic access to Microsoft.com services. Microsoft has big plans to expand the program to include querying MSDN, MS Technet, and MS Support sites. For now, however, the only service avai