by Mark Pilgrim – In previous columns, I have introduced RSS and explored options for consuming it. Now we turn to the production side. Last month I stirred up a small controversy by suggesting that RSS consumers should go out of their way to consume as many feeds as possible, even ones which are no

Allowing the no-cost deployment of editing applications authored with their XSLT Designer, Altova appears to be positioning themselves as a cost-effective alternative to the XML abilities of the forthcoming Microsoft Office 11.

If you need to store XML data in DB2, translate XML to relational data, or shred relational data into XML, the XML Extender for DB2 is an essential utility. But it’s not always straightforward. Find out what it can do and what problems to expect.

In this five-part article series, we’ll present examples that illustrate some common XSLT tasks such as transforming XML, sorting, generating nodes, conditions and looping, recursion, and so on. In this first part, we’ll see examples of transforming XML and sorting.

By Hitesh Seth – In this issue we’ll focus on the tools available to aid development and testing of VoiceXML-based components and applications. We’ll discuss how to use the tools to test and debug such applications from a normal Touch-Tone-based phone.

By Howard Katz – Previous tips in this series have explored how SAX can help delineate the relationships that exist between nodes in your XML documents. The tips have examined the use of document order and document order indices (DOIs) to track both parent-to-child and sibling-to-sibling relationshi

This article introduces Streaming Transformations for XML (STX), a template-based XML transformation language that operates on streams of SAX events. STX resembles XSLT 1.0, the tree-driven transformation language for XML, but STX offers unique features and advantages for some applications.

Rick Jelliffe’s Topologi has released the next version of its innovative Collaborative Markup Editor, adding new features and Linux and MacOS X support.

by Roger Jennings – Secure your SOAP request and response messages with digital signatures, encryption, and timestamps.

by Kendall Grant Clark – In last week’s column I suggested, only half-jokingly, that one motivation for new XML developments was to give techie journalists like me something new to write about. In making this silly claim, I was primarily reacting to what is widely seen as a kind of monotonous redund