Now that we have looked at the to my knowledge only tool for documenting DTDs, let’s get started with our own development effort dtddoc.

The Wired News site has undergone a major renovation and now uses the latest XHTML and CSS specifications. The result is impressive (smaller pages that load faster, better conformance to the accessibility guidelines, simpler maintenance) yet partial: the pages of the site are not well formed XML.

By Nicholas Chase – Over the years, HTML has only become bigger, never smaller, because new versions had to maintain backward compatibility. That’s about to change. On 5 August 2002, the first working draft of XHTML 2.0 was released and the big news is that backward compatibility has been dropped; t

by Per Bothner – The W3C is finalizing the XQuery specification, aiming for a final release in late 2002. XQuery is a powerful and convenient language designed for processing XML data. That means not only files in XML format, but also other data including databases whose structure — nested, named t

By Don MacVittie – Simple Object Access Protocol takes Web services to the next level by letting applications communicate. Network Computing comes clean on the technology.

by Laurence Moroney – The conversion of the native office document format to XML allows developers to create documents on the fly and serve them from a Web service. Read this article to learn how.

Generators are a very powerful new language feature of Python 2.2. In this tip, Uche Ogbuji presents a set of techniques for using generators for fast and lucid XML processing patterns in Python.

by Dave Pawson – One of the issues many users face when introduced to the production of print from XML is that of page layout. Without having the page layout right, its unlikely that much progress will be made. By way of introducing the W3C XSL Formatting Objects recommendation, I want to present a

By Paul Festa – The Web’s leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization’s push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.

This article demonstrates how to use the XmlTextReader class to read Extensible Markup Language (XML) from a file. XmlTextReader provides direct parsing and tokenizing of XML and implements the XML 1.0 specification as well as the namespaces in XML specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W