Describes how the XmlWriter class provides a non-cached, forward only, way of generating XML streams and helps the user build XML documents.

By Brian John Venn – Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. However, its capabilities are not restricted to simple static vector shapes. This article shows how you can add interactive elements to your SVG documents that respond to user input.

The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group have released five Working Drafts. Comments on all of these documents are invited, especially on open issues.

By Brett McLaughlin – Chapter 12: SOAP – In this chapter, I explain what SOAP is, and why it is such an important part of where the web development paradigm is moving. That will help you get the fundamentals down, and prepare you for actually working with a SOAP toolkit. From there, I briefly run ov

by Juval Löwy – .NET has a lot to offer when it comes to both developing and consuming secure Web services. .NET allows developers to either rely on Windows-based authentication or develop custom authentication mechanisms. Each option has its own tradeoffs and implications on the programming models.

by John E. Simpson – This month, I begin the fourth year of writing XML.com’s “XML Q&A” column. I’d like to thank my editors here for continued support and indulgence; at no time is that indulgence more evident than in August, when I tackle questions that no one has, to my knowledge, actually posed.

Version 1.1 of the .NET platform sports a slightly different XslTransform object with more secure Load() and Transform() methods. Many of the overloaded versions of the Transform() method from version 1.0 of .NET are now considered to be obsolete. If you take a closer look at the Transform() method

by Rob Ericsson – Don’t let valuable data languish in unaccessed databases. Use proper storage, business intelligence, and .NET technologies to give decision makers the information they need.

Aleksey Sanin has released version 1.1.1 of the XML Security Library (xmlsec), an open-source implementation of the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature (dsig) and W3C XML Encryption (xenc) specifications. This release adds X509Data node templates support to the NSS implementation, includes new functions fo

In this two-part article, the authors present some of the key features brought by the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Working Draft and show you how to use them with examples in Java code. In this second part, they cover operations on the document, access to type information, and introd