Sample chapter from XML for ASP.NET Developers by Dan Wahlin – What exactly is XSLT useful for and why would you, as an ASP.NET developer, want to learn about it? The answer boils down to the capability of XSLT to transform XML documents into different formats that can be consumed by a variety of de

By Qing-Hua Jiang – How to select DISTINCT items from XML via XSLT Like SQL query "SELECT DISTINCT year FROM projets" ? To use "preceding-sibling", like select="/publish/book[not(year = preceding-sibling::book/year)]<br><br>How to select DISTINCT items from XML via XSLT Like SQ

By James A. Cooke – For the past two decades, EDI has served as the mainstay for business-to-business data communication. But many experts believe that an alternative method of computer-to-computer communication–the use of extensible markup language (XML)–has begun to make inroads. To gauge where

by Leigh Dodds – In his opening keynote at the XML Europe 2002 conference, Peter Pappamikail, head of the European Union (EU) Information Resource Management Group, gave some background on their activities within European government and the unique challenges which they face in defining a new informa

By Eric B. Parizo – Before it can work well, a Web services must work, period. One analyst firm warns that unless testing plays a prominent role in development cycles, many Web services may be cast aside before they achieve their full potential and after they've already cost companies lots of ca

By Martin Veitch – IBM plans to include XML querying capabilities so database administrators can delve into unstructured data, including multimedia files. Jeff Jones, DB2 marketing director, said the next DB2 will host "some form of XQuery support". XQuery is one of the most popular emerging

by Niel Bornstein – In my first article in this series, I wrote about porting a SAX application called RSSReader to the new Microsoft .NET Framework XmlReader. After publication, I received a message from Chris Lovett of Microsoft suggesting I revisit the subject. As he said, while the code I presen

By Eric Knorr – In May 2001, after 18 months of grueling work, ebXML was born. My question of the week is: Why is Microsoft opposing–and why is IBM all but ignoring–ebXML?Obviously, ebXML's corporate proponents have money to spend on technology. And they drew on decades of electronic t

By Ryan Naraine – Search technology firm Inktomi Corp released its Search Toolkit, an XML-based server tool targeting enterprise Web developers.<br><Br>Inktomi, locked in a high-stakes race for market share with upstart Google, is styling the Search Toolkit technology an OEM software for extracting

Damien Guillaume has published JAXE, a new XML editor, written in Java and published under the GPL, for users who want something more than "yet another XML editor with a tree interface".