Rob Rohan has released version 0.1.8 of the Treebeard XSLT IDE on SourceForge. New features in this release include an updated user inteface and the latest Apache XSLT engine.

The latest release of the Java XML Pack, Summer 02, includes the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) v1.1, the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) v1.2, the Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) v1.0_01, Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) v1.0, and the SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) v1.1.

by Nigel McFarlane – HTML and XHTML are no longer the only game in town—Mozilla has direct support for other XML languages, such as MathML (mathematical equations) and SVG (two dimensional vector diagrams). Learn about Mozilla’s fresh approach for rendering Web page content onto the screen. Be sure

by Amelia Lewis – Since the application of XML to data representation first gained public visibility, there has been a movement to enhance its type system beyond that originally provided by DTD. Several attempts were made (SOX, XML Data and XML Data Reduced, Datatypes for DTDs, and others) before th

by Santosh Jaini – “XML and PHP” is designed to teach you just one thing: How to use PHP to create XML-based applications. Unlike some of the heavier books out there, it does not attempt to cover every single PHP function; rather, it zooms in on the XML API built into PHP and illustrates, with some

Columnist Benoit Marchal continues to shape XI, an open-source project that converts legacy text to XML. For increased efficiency, XI now implements the SAX XMLReader interface, which proves handy in linking XI to an XSLT processor. Code samples demonstrate the techniques, and the complete source co

The Perl Foundation have announced version 5.8 of Larry Wall’s popular scripting language, Perl, which includes improved Unicode support.

by Susan Sales Harkins and Martin W. P. Reid – Importing foreign data into an Access application can be difficult and time-consuming if Access doesn’t support the data format. You could try to find a go-between-a third format that’s compatible to both the data you’re importing and Access. Unfortunat

by Elliotte Rusty Harold – It’s often convenient to divide long documents into multiple files. The classic example is a book, which is customarily divided in chapters. Each chapter may be further subdivided into sections. Traditionally one has used XML external entity references to support document

Lately some controversy has arisen in the XML community about what is the most appropriate tool to supercede the dreaded DTDs: XML Schema or RELAX NG? The IETF is creating an RFC on the use of XML, and the topic of specifying schemas is one point of contention.