By Nicholas Chase – Because the style sheet and the source document in an XSLT transformation have different rules regarding white space stripping, it often seems as though the production of spaces and line breaks has no rhyme or reason in the process. This tip shows you how to control the productio

Sun Microsystems Corp has floated a series of XML-based specifications designed to crack-open Microsoft Corp’s Office monopoly and improve interoperability with StarOffice.

By Mike Ricciuti – IBM on Thursday launched a new version of its database server software that includes better Web services support and revamped pricing.

by Dare Obasanjo – There have been a few public attempts to define an effective subset of W3C XML Schema for general usage, most notable have been W3C XML Schema Made Simple by Kohsuke Kawaguchi and the X12 Reference Model for XML Design by the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12.<br><Br>This a

By Jonathan Lurie & Timothy Stockstill – One point of integration between SQL Server and XML lies in the ability to create an XML file from SQL data. The construction of an XML file is not so complicated that it could not easily be generated using a simple script and an ADO record set. Although this

This article shows how to write XML to a file by using the XmlTextWriter class. XmlTextWriter provides a fast, forward-only way of generating XML and helps you to build XML documents. XmlTextWriter provides stream write rather than using an object model, such as the XML Document Object Model (DOM),

The more author and columnist Benoît Marchal learns about Eclipse and the plug-in API, the more he likes what he sees. In this column, Benoît continues his ongoing project to integrate XM (a simple content management and publishing solution based on XML and XSLT) and Eclipse (an open-source project

by Dan Wahlin – Dealing with parameters in stored procedures can be laborious and time-intensive. Simplify the process with XML—download a sample app to show you how.

The fifth annual Forum XML, on November 12-14 in Paris, featured a consistent theme–that SOAP-based Web Services seem more than ever based on a contradiction, even as they are being positioned by vendors as a foundation for both loosely coupled systems and a new RPC architecture.

by Rich Salz – In my prior columns I’ve examined specific protocols and pieces of the web services infrastructure, including WSDL, SOAP attachments, and so on.But in this column I venture a bit further afield; it’s more like an op-ed than straight reportage: less fact, more opinion, if you w