James Britt walks through the Java JDOM in this 45 page online interactive tutorial. This tutorial includes complete coverage of the JDOM objects from creation, through to SAX and Java-based exception handling.

Code cleanup, XSLT debugger support, EXSLT date improvements, Windows Makefile improvements.

By Steph Tryphonas and Brad Porter – This document defines the 'application/ssml+xml' media type for the Speech Synthesis based markup language.

This official MCSD TRAINING KIT teaches professional developers how to create Web applications with the Microsoft .NET framework as they prepare for MCSD Exam 70-310, a core requirement on the MCSD track. Students learn through an integrated system of skill-building tutorials, case study examples, a

By Benoit Marchal – This column marks the launch of the third "Working XML" project. This new project deals with importing text documents in an XML publishing solution (or any XML solution for that matter).

The XForms Working Group has asked the public to participate in defining "XForms Basic", a smaller profile of the XForms specification targeted at small devices such as phones and handheld computers.

By Sandeep Chatterje – This article explores the world of Web Services, and the challenges in developing Web Services-based applications for the real world. In this first installment, I look at the requirements for building real world applications and their implications for application architecture.

By Benjamin Guralnik – While earlier help systems may have worked because they contained less information or fewer topics, the newer help systems are turning remarkably counter-productive in spite of the fact that they incorporate much more information than their prototypes did. The main reason that

By Dimitre Novatchev – In Dimitre's functional programming series, this article deals with generating natural random numbers using different designs in the implementation. The code of the implementation demonstrates the use of such powerful, functional programming design patterns as partial appl

In previous tips, Khor Soon Hin showed you how to convert Rich Text Format (RTF) files into Simple DocBook (sdocbook) XML, and how RTF files with graphics can be converted into sdocbook as well. Now, some curious readers have inquired if they can do the same for Word documents — or even display tho