by J.V.Ravichandran – Before proceeding to the Complex types, let us look into creating the “Unnamed Simple Types” that appears in the right-side combo box of an element. Follow the same procedure as in creating Simple types (Creating an XML Schema using VS.Net – Part – I) i.e., from the toolbox, dr

By Simon St.Laurent – Extreme Markup Languages had its usual thought-provoking intensity this past week in Montreal. The following bits may provoke yet a few more thoughts.

By Benoît Marchal – In this article, I survey the three most popular paths to build XML user interfaces. I will compare their characteristics and include many links so you can download products and test for yourself.

by Jirka Kosek – DocBook is a popular tool for creating software documentation among developers. One reason for its success is the existence of the DocBook XSL stylesheets, which can be used to convert DocBook XML source into many target formats including HTML, XHTML, XSL-FO (for print), JavaHelp, H

When dealing with XML, you need a convenient representation of the XML data in memory. This article offers Java programmers a solution to achieve this goal: an easy-to-use package for handling XML data in Java.

In a Talkback article, Gary Edwards states: “The OASIS Open Office XML File Format will support both XForms and SVG W3C Standards.”

by David Mertz – In this tip, David tells you when not to use heavyweight XML APIs. Standard XML APIs like SAX, DOM, and XSLT provide sophisticated ways of transforming and manipulating XML documents. But each of them is also complex enough to warrant several-hundred page specification documents, an

The recent publication of three W3C documents, XForms Proposed Recommendation, XML Events Proposed Recommendation, and xml:id Requirements may mark a new trend toward fewer standalone XML vocabularies and more "building block" specifications.

By Kate Gregory – In my last column, I showed you how to use MSXML4, the COM component that parses, searches, and generates XML, to work with XML in a "classic Visual C++" application. This time around I’m going to tackle the same tasks, but use the .NET Framework to process XML.

by Kendall Grant Clark – The old chestnut of a binary encoding for XML has cropped up once more, this in time in serious consideration by the W3C. Kendall Clark comments on the announcement of the W3C’s Binary XML Workshop.