by Bob DuCharme – As part of his work as the editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification, Michael Kay has been prototyping the new features of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 in a separate development branch of his well-known Saxon XSLT processor. As I write this, his most recent prototype release is 7.4. (His reco

The XML classes in the .NET Framework provide a comprehensive and integrated set of classes, allowing you to work with XML documents and data. XML classes in the .NET Framework can be broken into several groups: parsing and writing XML with the XmlReader and XmlWriter, validating XML with the XmlVal

by Dan Wahlin – Need to format XML to make it more readable? Use the .NET platform’s XmlTextWriter class to accomplish the task with a minimal amount of work.

Brett McLaughlin explains how to use SAX to communicate with applications that require DOM and JDOM inputs. It’s a useful technique: With the flurry of XML APIs available, developers now have to be able to easily move from one to another, and then on to another. The sample code provides a concrete e

XPath is described in XPath 1.0 standard. In this tutorial selected XPath features are demonstrated on many examples.

SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer is a non-normative document intended to provide an easily understandable tutorial on the features of the SOAP Version 1.2 specifications. In particular, it describes the features through various usage scenarios, and is intended to complement the normative text contain

by Paul Ford – Berkeley DB XML is an open source, embedded XML database created by Sleepycat Software. It’s built on top of Berkeley DB, a “key-value” database which provides record storage and transaction management. Unlike relational databases, which store data in relational tables, Berkeley DB XM

By Paul Festa – The struggling Canadian software company released Smart Graphics Studio. First announced in December, the software is part of Corel’s push to boost earnings with tools for use with XML, or Extensible Markup Language, a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation for creating indus

More and more projects are using XML schemas to define the structure of their data. As your repository of schemas grows, you need tools to manipulate and manage your schemas. The Eclipse XSD Schema Infoset Model has powerful querying and editing capabilities. In this article, Shane Curcuru will show

by John E. Simpson – I am trying to figure out this RSS thing. If I want to “subscribe” to someone’s XML feed, what do I do? I hit the XML button and get an entire page of code. What do I do with that? I’ll start by spelling out something which you probably (at some level) already know: RSS