by Nigel McFarlane – Go beyond simple point-and-click interactivity in your Web pages and see how dynamic SVG provides new ways for users to supply input. Download the Adobe SVG Plugin and then try the sample now.

Kevin Williams takes a look at the latest status of the XPath 2.0 specifications and provides some specific examples of XPath 2.0 features that will make the XML developer’s life easier. Examples are provided in XML and XPath.

by Bob DuCharme – Any manipulation of XML documents, whether with XSLT or not, often involves cleaning up the documents. Perhaps some company sends XML data to your company, and while it may be valid XML, it still needs to be beaten into shape a bit before your systems can use it.Dealing wit

By Paul Prescod – What problem are web services trying to solve? It sounds like it should be an easy question to answer but web services are seldom described in terms of their problem domain. The general gist of most definitions seems to be “Web Services allow programs written in different languages

Joe Gregorio describes how adding XML to the Web might be enough to open some powerful new possibilities.

By Peter Galli – The next version of Microsoft Corp.’s Office productivity suite will come with XML support baked into Word, allowing users to, among other things, more effectively mine their data.

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),

by Vikas Pandya – You are no longer limited to raster-based images. Finally, you can draw vector images dynamically inside a browser using the new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology.

by Kendall Grant Clark – TAG, the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group, announced recently that XLink "should be used for hypertext references in user-interface oriented applications", and that "it is the unanimous opinion of the TAG that XLink should be used for hypertext references in XHTML 2.0." Th

IBM’s own XML ace Doug Tidwell offers one curious reader an automated solution for defining a case-insensitive enumeration that’s straightforward, standards-compliant, and requires little work on the developer’s part. Several code samples are included.