by Hitesh Seth – The previous article in this series, “Tools for Developing VoiceXML Applications” (Vol. 2, issue 3), reviewed tools that can aid the development and testing of VoiceXML applications. Now we dive into the mechanisms of writing the grammars and review the standards being developed aro

by Brett McLaughlin – This tip takes a look at a common exception that occurs when you attempt to move DOM nodes. Here you’ll learn the causes of this exception and, most important, how to avoid it when doing DOM programming. The code listings demonstrate how to move nodes from one document to anoth

The W3C’s work on its experimental web browser — the Amaya Activity — was closed in April, as a result of a W3C Advisory Committee Review.

By Lisa Vaas – Best-of-breed XML database developers Ipedo Inc., Sonic Software Corp. and Sleepycat Software Inc. are enhancing their respective native XML database software to make it easier for enterprises to use and manage XML data in Web services environments.

In this article, you’ll learn about XPath and how to use it in .NET applications. The Microsoft .NET Framework supports XPath 1.0 W3C recommendation. The classes in System.Xml and System.Xml.XPath namespaces allow executing XPath queries and working with the result sets. Before we look at these clas

by Ivelin Ivanov – In this installment of Practical XQuery I continue to discuss practical uses of XQuery, focusing this time on interactive web page generation. The sample application will display a list of books; based on user input, it will also display detailed information about the selected tit

In the .NET Framework, XPath evaluation is exposed through the XPathNavigator abstract class. The .NET Framework ships only two implementations of XPathNavigator: one that operates on the standard W3C DOM implementation (XmlNode) and another that operates on an in-memory tree representation called X

by Dan Wahlin – Converting CLR types to XML Schema data types in .NET can be a painful process if you’re not careful. After all, XML data types defined in the XML Schema specification do not always match up perfectly with their corresponding types in the CLR. However, you can greatly simplify this c

Sydock Software have announced the release candidate of Sydock Document Processor, a set of tools for WYSIWYG XML authoring for end-users.

by Steve Franklin – Before making the important decision to purchase an XML parser, look at the results of Steve Franklin’s test of a selection of both DOM- and SAX-based parsers.