by Chimezie Ogbuji – There are a number of visual tools employed by XML editors and viewers which make verbose XML documents easier to browse and manipulate. XML Spy is, for example, such a tool. This article will introduce how SVG can be used to create a visual representation of an XSLT stylesheet.

Templates provide an excellent way to maintain a consistent look and feel across a Website. However, version 1 of ASP.NET doesn’t natively support the concept of templates. This isn’t a major stumbling block since the .NET platform provides a robust object-oriented environment that can be leverage

by Amit Asaravala – Many developers will be surprised to learn that SOAP isn’t the only game in town for Web services interfacing. REST offers a perfectly good solution for the majority of implementations, with greater flexibility and lower overhead. Developers need to stop reaching immediately for

In April 2003, Microsoft released the .NET Framework version 1.1 (v1.1.4322). This article summarizes the changes to XML/Web services support in the .NET Framework version 1.1.

Learn about designing schema libraries capable of modeling a wide range of programming language-specific type hierarchies in use today.

Norm Walsh writes, “There comes a point in the life cycle of any system when adding one more patch is the wrong solution to every problem. Eventually, it’s time to rethink, refactor, and rewrite. For DocBook, I think that time has come.”

by Kyle Downey – In this article we’re going to start a project to design an XML format that could be generated from IDL, TLB, XDT or any other representation of a portable component and then be read by any language that supports XML and further manipulated to generate GUI tools, documentation, and

By Brett McLaughlin – Quick is an open source data binding framework with an emphasis on runtime transformations. This instructional article shows you how to use this framework to quickly and painlessly turn your Java data into XML documents, without the class generation semantics required by other

Dare Obasanjo shows you how to implement an extension library containing over 60 functions that add support for features such as regular expressions, set based operations, and date-time processing to XSLT.

by Faheem Khan – This first article in three part series describing transactional web services introduces the service oriented architecture, federation of web services, and the need for coordination and transactions.