by Dare Obasanjo – Many developers utilize XML in situations where type information is known at design or compile time, including interacting with relational databases and strongly typed programming languages like Java and C#. Thus, there is a significant proportion of the XML developer community wh

By Nick Evans – As we get ready to begin a new year, we stand at an important point in time for the software industry. The Web services paradigm, one of several factors helping drive the industry towards the use of software as a service, stands to gain mainstream acceptance and deployment within the

By Brett McLaughlin – In this tip, you’ll learn about a better way to bootstrap in your DOM applications. This builds upon the previous tip, which examined the abilities that DOM natively provides for this task.

by Eric van der Vlist – For many participants, the most memorable event of XML 2002 will be Jean Paoli’s presentation of Office 11, which promises to deliver easier access to XML for hundreds of millions of workstations.

By Gregg Keizer – Microsoft answered questions about how developers were supposed to take advantage of Office 11’s new functionality, particularly its XML expertise, by unveiling a set of development tools, code-named Visual Studio Tools for Office.

by Kurt Cagle – Kurt Cagle says we shouldn’t become so fixated on hiding XML that it disappears. Read his commentary on the fight between the XML Brokers, the XML Linguists, and other groups on whether to “clothe” XML or keep it “naked.”

by A. Russell Jones – Keeping up with key technologies is the best thing you can do to give yourself an edge in the employment market now—and in the future. Are you at least semi-proficient with all 10 of the technologies on our list?

by Bob DuCharme – In last month’s column, we saw how XSLT’s xsl:number element lets you add numbers to your output for numbered lists or chapter and section headers. We looked at some of the attributes of this element that let you control its appearance — for example, how to output the numbers as R

W3C issues proposals to standardize XML encryption and decryption, both vital to Web services security.

By Phani R C Chowdary Koganti – The World Wide Web Consortium has issued a series of standards for XHTML, a new version of HTML as a version of XML. Does this mean every Web designer and developer must learn XHTML? What are the benefits? What happens if you don’t? Get answers to these questions fro