by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Sun has recently released version 0.75 of the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), as well as its reference implementation.

The popularity of XML can be gauged by the number of acronyms created around it! PerfectXML team has compiled a list of 100 such acronyms that relate to XML family in some way. Be sure to bookmark this page and visit it anytime you see an acronym and can’t remember its full form or want to get more

By Brett McLaughlin – This tip explains the changes to DOM Level 3 that relate to bootstrapping, and how they improve upon DOM Levels 1 and 2.

by Dimitris Dimitriadis – Writing specifications is great. Implementing them is difficult. Specifications, at least those from the W3C, aim at interoperability and are written with wide acceptance in mind. However, they tend to be difficult to implement. Look at the various implementations of the or

By Hitesh Seth – Speech Application Language Tags (SALT) is a set of XML-based tags that can be added to existing Web-based applications, enhancing the user interface through interactive speech recognition. In addition, SALT can be used to extend Web-based applications to the telephony world, thereb

Use classes within the System.Xml.Schema namespace to create and modify schemas.

By Paula Musich – Freshwater Software extended its SiteScope active Web site monitoring tool to cover Web services.The wholly owned subsidiary of Mercury Interactive Corp., based in Boulder, Colo., added SiteScope monitors that can monitor the availability of Web services without using agent

by Dan Wahlin – This sample application demonstrates how you can validate three different sections of an XML instance document against three different XML schemas, all within different target namespaces. The application leverages the XmlSchemaCollection class along with the XmlValidatingReader to pe

Recently, Andrew Watt (author of the book Sams Teach Yourself XML in 10 Minutes) started an interesting discussion thread on XML-DEV mailing list. The topic was to describe XML in 500 words or less to an “ordinary” Web developer (who has no formal Computer Science training).

Often perceived mainly as a query language, XQuery can actually be used to generate XML and HTML. Per Bothner provides a worked example, and compares XQuery with XSLT.