IBM and Oracle have submitted a Java Specification Request to “define a set of interfaces and classes that enable an application to submit XQuery queries to an XML data source and process the results of these queries.”

by Kendall Grant Clark – A bulletin from the XML developer community covering the growth of RELAX NG adoption, discussion on the W3C’s approach to criticism and an update on the YAML experiment.

A Microsoft official stressed the importance of web services in building the future of IT at the TechEd 2003 conference in Dallas.

Although XML is in widespread use throughout the world now, there are still many “legacy” systems that do not know a thing about XML or how to use it. Many of these systems work with different types of flat-files that delimit data using commas, tabs, or have fixed-length fields. The keyword here is

by Bob DuCharme – Because XSLT is for manipulating XML documents, and XML documents are text, XSLT developers with any experience in Unix-based utilities often wish that XSLT would let them use regular expressions. XSLT 2.0 grants this wish. XPath 2.0 gives XSLT 2.0 three new functions that can take

In this tutorial you learn to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again. You won’t have to worry about parsing XML or navigating a tree asking for child nodes and parents. You start with an XML Schema and process it into Java source files. Once you ha

by Nigel McFarlane – XUL is a new Netscape/Mozilla XML dialect that describes the elements of a traditional user interface. Faster and cleaner than HTML, it might just be the quickest way yet to code a UI.

by Bill Venners – XML sucks because it’s being used wrongly. It is being used by people who view it as being an encapsulation of semantics and data, and it’s not. XML is purely a way of structuring files, and as such, really doesn’t add much to the overall picture. XML came from a document preparat

This step-by-step article describes how to do bulk inserts and updates with different Microsoft .NET data providers by using the OpenXML method. Although the sample in this article uses the SqlClient managed provider, you can also use the OLEDB or the ODBC managed provider.

By Michael Singer – The two groups look to streamline Web services development by working closely together on specs as ebXML and the Universal Business Language (UBL).