How do the XPath navigator and the XSLT processor really work?

by Dare Obasanjo – This article provides an overview of the current landscape of techniques for processing XML and runs the gamut from discussing old mainstays, such as push model APIs and tree model APIs as exemplified by SAX and DOM, to newer participants in the XML world such as cursor APIs and p

By Darryl K. Taft – Led by Microsoft Corp. and IBM, a group of companies Tuesday plans to announce a new Web services specification for handling security in Web services environments.

by Uche Ogbuji – In my last article I started a discussion of data bindings for Python with a close look at generateDS.py. This time I’ll look at another package, gnosis.xml.objectify from David Mertz’s Gnosis Utilities. Dave Kuhlman, developer of generateDS, has also written up a comparison of his

The third article in Michael Qualls’ series on using XML with ASP is here! This time around we check to see if the file already exists, and if it does, we append to it. Using this type of technique we’re actually creating a data construct similar to a database table.

By Darryl K. Taft – In a move that is critical to the delivery of Web services offerings, IBM is developing middleware to guarantee service levels. At the company’s T.J. Watson Research Center here, IBM is beta testing software developed through its Web Services Management Middleware project

by Mark O’Neill – Take a look at the security challenges of Web services and how to address them with security architecture, including what it can offer going forward when XML traverses firewalls.

New support for XQuery 1.0 as well as XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. “The XQuery support has been implemented largely by writing an XQuery parser and generating the same internal interpretable code that is currently generated by the XSLT front end. Since there is very little functionality in XQuery that is

by Evangelos Petroutsos – Combine SQL Server’s XML support and .NET XML serialization to simplify your front-end code by moving custom objects rather than DataSets between application layers and into and out of SQL Server.

by Manfred Knobloch – Developing new stylesheets can be a chore. It would be nice if you could tell your stylesheet to trace which tags from the source document are not yet processed by xsl:template elements. And why not make your stylesheet write an xsl:template match skeleton for each unhandled ta