Now it’s easier than ever to find out what’s new at DevX. This article will show you two simple ways of pulling links to new DevX content into your own sites using an XML standard called RSS . Get started with one of our feeds today, or use these techniques to pull in feeds from all over the Net.

Generators are a very powerful new language feature of Python 2.2. In this tip, Uche Ogbuji presents a set of techniques for using generators for fast and lucid XML processing patterns in Python.

by Jan Egil Refsnes – This chapter covers the XML Document Type Definition. Using a DTD is the formal way to describe a valid XML document.

Tony Hammond from Elsevier has announced a PRISM module for RSS 1.0, and provided some example data feeds, including one for Nature.

by Kendall Grant Clark – In a previous column, “The Social Meaning of RDF”, I described a debate about the relation of formal and social meanings of RDF assertions, particularly as related to the Semantic Web. This debate about the “social meaning of RDF” is complex and encompasses a wide range of t

By Martin LaMonica – Shrinking IT budgets have forced corporations to cut back on Web services spending but such projects still remain a top priority, according to a Gartner report released Wednesday.

by Robert Wegener – Although it’s hard to predict the future of Web services, see how four important business drivers could mold Web services’ evolution and bring them outside the firewall.

by Jan Egil Refsnes – This chapter contains an easy to understand XML tutorial. It covers an introduction to XML, and explains the differences between XML and HTML, the history and purpose of XML, and the basic XML syntax.

by William Brogden – While many potential uses of XML result in fragments of XML text, not complete documents, XML parsers require complete documents to do their jobs properly. I have been running an XML-based servlet to conduct online surveys. It records user responses by adding XML formatted data

The complete program of all sessions scheduled for the Extreme Markup Languages 2003 conference (“an unabashedly hard-core conference for the technically-oriented members of the information interchange and knowledge representation community” taking place in Montreal on August 5-8) is now available.