Sun has released version 0.7 of their JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) specification introducing a partial -and controversial- support for W3C XML Schema.

By Darshan Singh – One of the frequently asked questions on SQL Server newsgroups is “How to import XML data into SQL Server 2000?” There are various ways in which XML data can be imported into SQL Server 2000 database tables. In this article, we’ll look at some of these options. More specifically,

By Mikael Bergkvist – Clientside XML is’nt used as frequently as one would have expected, and I blame HTC’s for that. The reason I do so, is because they dont highlight the point good enough. That custom tags are more useful if you think of them as actual extensions to HTML, meaning that they must b

by Uche Ogbuji – One of the things I’m going to do in these columns is provide brief information on significant new happenings relevant to Python-XML development, including significant software releases.PyXML 0.8.1 has been released. Major changes include updated DOM support and the disablin

MSDN has released a code sample for an XmlCsvReader. This sample sample implementation of an XmlReader that parses tab-delimited .csv files and presents their contents as a stream of XML elements; XmlReader is the Microsoft .NET Framework base class for all managed stream-level XML processing.

RealNetworks, Inc. has submitted the ‘Extensible Media Commerce Language (XMCL)’ specification to W3C with a suggestion that W3C start a working group to develop a W3C recommendation for XML based digital rights specification language. XMCL is an XML-based interchange format that describes usage rul

Elliotte Rusty Harold has announced a new tree-based XML API, XOM (from the generic term XML object model), which he describes as “closest in spirit to JDOM” and representing an “effort to synthesize the best features of the existing APIs while eliminating the worst”.

By Darryl K. Taft – Although working in lock step with partners on every other important Web services standard, Microsoft Corp. took a step on its own to advance Web services capabilities.The company announced the availability of the technical preview for the Microsoft Web Services Developme

Traditional HTML forms violate many of the tenets of good markup language design, frequently mixing presentation and data. In this article, Joel Rivera and Len Taing introduce you to XForms, an extension of XHTML that represents the next generation of Web forms. Though XForms is still in an embryoni

by Kendall Grant Clark – When the first public XHTML 2.0 Working Draft was released in early August, one of the most common reactions, at least in the XML developer community, was to wonder why the HTML Working Group (HWG) wasn’t using XLink. XHTML 2.0’s refusal to use XLink as its hypertext linking