by Kendall Grant Clark – In this article I consider the two most common ways of growing XML technologies, particularly in the context of standards bodies and the XML development community. While these two methods are well-known, I draw my inspiration from an XML-DEV posting by Roger Costello. His po

Although XML continues to gain popularity throughout the world, companies still store much of their data in relational databases. This can present a problem when the relational data needs to be converted into a hierarchical structure in order to be used in an application. Several different technique

by Michael Qualls – This article is the final installment in a series of articles on manipulating XML data with ASP. So far we have learned to add, append, and edit records in XML files using ASP. This article puts on the finishing touches in order to tie all of these processes together.

James Clark has released a new version of his Jing validator for Relax NG, adding support for validating document instances against Schematron and W3C XML schemas, and also implementing support for the Namespace Routing Language (NRL).

by Benoît Marchal – The Formatting Objects (FO) standard offers powerful properties for controlling the layout of printed documents. This tip shows you how to control the insertion of page breaks for better-looking documents. I’ll present a standard method that works with commercial FO renderers, an

Oleg Tkachenko explains how you can postprocess XSL transformation results into multiple documents using the XslTransform and XmlTextWriter classes.

by John E. Simpson – Before getting into this month’s questions, I wanted to discuss a change in this column’s standard operating procedures. In the nearly three years that I’ve been writing “XML Q&A,” all questions I’ve answered have been drawn from a single source: the O’Reilly Network XML Forum.

by Dan Wahlin – Normally, you can’t bind an XmlDocument object directly to a control. But with just a few extra lines of code, you can convert it to a DataSet for the same result.

by Mohamed Najeeb – This week we’re bringing you an online exam system that pulls it’s data from an xml file on the server. The question list for the user is sent to the browser via Microsoft’s XMLHTTP Object. Using this same object, the questions are retrieved from the server and displayed on the p

Hans Fugal has released a Vim syntax highlighting file for Relax NG compact syntax (RNC). It joins a couple of other options available for working with and viewing syntax-highlighted RNC schema instances: an Emacs mode and a set of stylesheets for generating HTML versions of RNC schemas.