by Piroz Mohseni – Parsers differ significantly in performance, reliability, and conformance to standards. This article compares the Xerces, Oracle and Sun parsers.

by Kendall Grant Clark – I confess: when it comes to XML and web services, I am a Big Picture person. There are hundreds of angle-bracket jockeys in the XML development community, to whom we can all look for the ins and outs of particular XML technologies. But the job of the XML-Deviant column, as I

Describes how the XmlConvert class performs strongly typed conversion of XML data.

by Hitesh Seth – Even though interoperability and making systems and enterprises work together have been the main goals of XML and Web services technologies and standards, the quest for a better way to develop applications has led XML in another direction: around consuming XML/Web services to develo

by Kendall Grant Clark – Taking the long view of recent technology, XHTML may be the most important XML vocabulary ever created. What I mean is not that XHTML will be the most widely deployed XML vocabulary, though if we take the long view, it could be. What I mean is that XHTML puts XML’s reputatio

In the third article of his series, Marcin Policht examines executing T-SQL statements against SQL Server 2000 via HTTP.

by Andrew C. Mayo – Take a Web site that uses two ASPs to produce an infinite number of HTML pages, and recode it to do the same thing with only one ASP. See how .NET’s object-oriented features help you get it done.

In his opening keynote at the Twelfth International World Wide Web conference, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium explained how the two main thrusts of the development of the web do not compete, but can work together.

by Matt Liotta – A native XML database makes sense for organizations that want to store and access XML without all the unsightly schema mapping required to store XML in a traditional relational database system. Several commercial native XML databases exist; take a first look at Apache’s open source

by Russell Dyer – At the top of the HTML hierarchy stands Steven Pemberton, chair of the HTML working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). A lover of language, a writer, and an editor, as well as an organizer and a leader in the web community, he has had both subtle and profound influences