In this tip, developerWorks columnist David Mertz advises when to use tag attributes and when to use subelement contents to represent data. Learn what considerations go into designing a DTD, Schema, or just an ad hoc XML format. You’ll also learn when attributes and contents are interchangeable, and

The XPath functionality is the ability to query a data store for some node or set of nodes. The XPathNavigator is the class that provides the methods required to implement XPath queries over any data store, and is based upon the Data Model described in the XML Path Language (XPath) 1.0 Recommendatio

Learn how to create custom functions for XPath using System.Xml APIs from the .NET Framework SDK.

Software AG has released Version 4.1.4 of Tamino XML Server, which features better search tools and an API for the C programming language.

by Jirka Kosek – The XSLT language is capable of achieving many tasks, but some surprisingly trivial requirements, such as calculating the total amount of an invoice, cannot be expressed in a straightforward way. This article describes how you can get round this by using a very powerful extension fu

by Andrew Yang – Web services have the potential to create a revolution in the IT industry, but only if security issues are addressed properly first.

by Adam Cartwright – ASP+ configuration information is stored in XML-based configuration files. Using built-in features of IIS 5.0 and IE 5.0 such as the FileSystemObject, the XML Document Object Model (DOM) and XML Data Islands, we can easily develop a rich tool for modifying and editing these conf

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

by Dan Frumin – The Microsoft .NET Framework brings with it many new tools and improvements for developers. Among them is a very rich and powerful set of XML classes that allow the developer to tap into XML and XSLT in their applications. Before the Microsoft .NET Framework was released, Microsoft p

Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB – the most widely deployed application-specific data management software in the world with over 200 million deployments – announced general availability of Berkeley DB XML, a native XML database built on the most advanced version of Berkeley DB ever engineer