by Eric van der Vlist – The “observation” of a XML document made by a schema processor changes the document, and schemas bias our perception of XML documents. This prompted me to ask the question: can XML be the same after W3C XML Schema?

Janet Sullivan knows that the successful use of XML depends on how clean developers can keep their XML data trees. Make sure bad data does not corrupt your XML data tree, insists Sullivan. In this piece, Sullivan gives tips and tricks for XML developers to keep the introduction of dynamic data safe.

Ever wish you had Intellisense when creating XSLT documents in VS.NET? Joe Feser (http://www.fesersoft.com) has published an excellent XML schema for XSLT that can be used to provide Intellisense for XSLT documents in VS.NET.

The Book of SAX: The Simple API for XML by W. Scott Means and Michael A. Bodie (ISBN 1-886411-77-8) is a comprehensive tutorial and reference for SAX 2.0 using numerous examples.

By Larry Dignan – Web services may someday emerge as a standard piece of every big company’s technology arsenal, but for now, they won’t do much to revive tech spending.

The C++ XML Toolkit is a C++ class library providing a rich set of features that facilitate the integration of XML into your applications.At its heart, the C++ XML Toolkit contains a high-performance validating XML parser with an event-based SAX 2.0 interface. It is supplied as an extension

by Michael Fitzgerald – Working with XML Schema is like driving a limousine. It’s true that it has some nice appointments (datatypes come to mind), but the wheelbase is a bit on the long side, making it difficult to turn corners easily, and I am inclined to let somebody else do the driving for me. U

By Robert Lemos – The software giant dubbed “critical” a buffer overflow in its remote access service (RAS) software, which is a native service in Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The security hole could allow an attacker to run any code, the advisory stated. Another release detai

Microsoft’s general manager for e-business servers and BizTalk Server’s lead product manager talked with XML & Web Services Magazine about orchestrating business processes for Web services and BizTalk Server’s strategy in that arena.

by Leigh Dodds – In this week’s XML-Deviant column, I examine an XML best practice guide under development by the IETF, as well as the XML Schema language debate which it has reignited.