by Bob DuCharme – In last month's column we looked at XSLT techniques for splitting up strings of text, for checking whether strings had certain substrings, and for normalizing white space out of an element. This month we'll learn more ways to gain control over strings in your source documen

Three OASIS Committee Specifications, Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) v2, ebXML Registry Service (RS) v2, and ebXML Registry Information Model (RIM) v2, have passed final approval by the OASIS membership at-large to gain official status as OASIS Standards. To reach this milestone, each of

By Shane Curcuru – As the use of schemas grows, the need for tools to manipulate schemas grows. The new Schema Infoset Model provides a complete modeling of schemas themselves, including the concrete representations as well as the abstract relationships within a schema or a set of schemas. This arti

by Steven Livingstone – In this article we will look at the latest XML parser from Microsoft, MSXML 4.0. Microsoft has taken a lot of criticism in the past over its adoption of non-standard schema and XSL drafts, which happened most often in early parser releases and even version 3.0 to a lesser ext

By Carolyn A. April – STARTUP ENOSYS SOFTWARE officially launches on Monday, rolling out a suite of data integration software that company officials claim features the first commercially available engine based on the XQuery standard.

The Apache Jakarta Project has released version 1.5Beta2 of its cross-platform Java- and XML-based build tool, Ant.

Two promote a complementary solution that allows enterprise companies to manage existing Windows-based applications as XML Web services over corporate networks.

XML is a structured, predictable, and standard data storage format, and as such carries a price. Unlike the line-by-line, make-it-up-as-you-go style that typifies text hacking in Perl, XML expects you to learn the rules of its game–the structures and protocols, before you can play with it. Fortunat

The XML Converter is a data converting software lets the user to interactively create a data transformation. It allows you to use XML documents by exporting source data into XML file. XML Converter is a visual mapping and conversion tool, which manages all dialects of XML such as DTD(document type d

XML has developed a tree-centric vision of the documents which is insufficient for some applications. Patrick Durusau urged us at XML Europe 2002 to "get down from our trees" and explore "Concurrent Markup for XML Documents", a XML based technique to define several intermixed tree st