Larry Masinter noted that the IETF has now published RFC 3406, Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanism, as well as RFCs 3401, 3402, 3403 and 3404 on the Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS).

It is possible to offload XSL processing from the server to the client. Doing so distributes the load, which helps to relieve the server from having to process the formatting of an XML document.

By Scarlet Pruitt – E-BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER Progress Software is purchasing XML (Extensible Markup Language) toolmaker eXcelon in a move that will allow the company to expand its e-business application integration products.

by Edd Dumbill – Whatever else they have or haven’t been, web services have been a boon for the popular technology media. On the way up the hype curve, breathless reports of the coming automation of our very existence filled pages and pages. Software executives jostled to join the right cabals, and

By Jeff Gonzalez – While working on a project involved heavily with XML, XML Schemas and Web Services, the need for a class library to handle schema validation of XML files became very apparent. I have created such a class that will validate an XML file against any number of given schema documents.

By Jared Jackson – Using XSL transformations effectively and efficiently requires understanding how to use XSL as a functional language, and this means understanding recursion. This article introduces the key concepts of recursion and its particular use in XSL. Techniques for optimizing XML translat

IBM’s new XML Schema Infoset Model provides a complete modeling of schemas themselves, including the concrete representations as well as the abstract relationships within a schema or a set of schemas. Learn how to use this powerful library to perform complex queries on your own schemas.

By Lori MacVittie – Data Power’s XA35 XML Accelerator — a mean, green XSLT machine — leaves the competition the dust.

The W3C has released a Candidate Recommendation of XML 1.1, with changes to control-character and Unicode normalization handling.

by Niel Bornstein – The designers of the .NET runtime put a lot of thought into the issue of binding XML to a database. The path from XML to database and back again starts with ADO.NET, .NET’s database persistence layer, which can be thought of as analogous to Java’s JDBC.