by Mark Pilgrim – The problem with discussing RDF (where that means, “I think this data format should be RDF”) is that you can support any four of these RDF issues (model, syntax, tools, vision), in any combination, while vigorously arguing against the others. People who believe that the RDF concept

Version 1.0 of XSLT doesn’t support sorting dates using the xsl:sort tag. This can present a problem since dates frequently play an important role in various applications. For example, if you have the following XML document, XSLT does not provide a way to sort the Customer nodes based upon the data

by Hitesh Seth – If you haven’t come across RSS yet, RSS is “Really Simple Syndication.” Simply put, RSS provides a simple way for Web sites to provide syndicated content to downstream applications.

by Yuri Boglaev – Use XML data, events, and XSLT for a simple rule engine that helps you separate business rules from application code.

By Rick Parrish – This two-part article offers an introduction to the Xerces-C++ XML library. Part 1 explains how to link the library into applications written in Linux and Windows. Ample code demonstrates parsing with the SAX API, and a sample application shows you how to create a bar graph in ASCI

Daniel Veillard has released new versions of libxml2 and libxslt, classifying the libxml2 release as a “major bugfix release”, and writing that libxml2 2.5.9 and 2.5.10 “include a lot of bugfixes spanning the whole library; upgrading is strongly recommended.” The libxslt 1.0.32 release is also signi

by Norman Walsh – XML is pretty simple. There’s plenty of complexity to be found if you go looking for it: if you want, for example, to validate or transform or query it. But elements and attributes in well formed combinations have become the basis for an absolutely astonishing array of projects.

by Jon Udell – In last month’s column, "The Document is the Database", I sketched out an approach to building a web-based application backed by pure XML (and as a matter of fact, XHTML) data. I’ve continued to develop the idea, and this month I’ll explore some of the XSLT-related recipes that have e

by George M. Pieri and Arnoll Solano – Using XML to serve up your data provides business objects without properties, which speeds up code development and maintenance. Discover approaches that can reduce development time.

by Khor Soon Hin – XML makes the ideal intermediary for converting existing Rich Text Format (RTF) documents to HTML for display on the Web. This tip explains how to convert RTF documents into XML format, albeit with some restrictions, using the Java application MajiX. From there you can easily tran