By Benoit Marchal – Work on HC, the SAX ContentHandler compiler, continues. This month, our columnist discusses the compilation algorithm. He also invests a bit of time automating tests with JUnit.

By Pedro Gil – With all the samples I provided earlier I've been giving a simple query to be output into XML, but in a real life situation the xml files are much more complex than this, perhaps you will have to deal with N:N relationships. Let's suppose the following database schema,

by Christopher A. Jones – What many developers realized after viewing the beta code, presentations, and samples is that Microsoft has indeed been focusing on the nature of these XML-based Web services and their utility, and they've created a series of services with an infrastructure fabric under

Where have you seen or heard this before? "We have the solution to all your problems." My inbox and voice mail are full of these. The most recent truckload came in response to my column about how Samsung and Oracle have replacements for Microsoft Exchange.The more I thought about the

Outside of custom editors and viewers, reading XML data is comparatively difficult. A lightweight approach for viewing XML is to attach a cascading style sheet (CSS2) to XML documents and then use a recent Web browser to view them (Mozilla is excellent, IE often adequate). developerWorks columnist D

After examining the basic blocks with Universal Business Language and XML Common Business Language, what else is missing for electronic business? A whole lot more is incorporated into Electronic Business XML, ebXML for short.

by Edd Dumbill – As expected, James Clark deservedly scooped up the "XML Cup" for contributions to the XML industry at XML 2001. To redress the balance in favor of the usual cynical sniping, I'm happy to present the Anti-Awards for 2001, intended to burst some overinflated XM

by Edd Dumbill – As expected, James Clark deservedly scooped up the “XML Cup” for contributions to the XML industry at XML 2001. To redress the balance in favor of the usual cynical sniping, I’m happy to present the Anti-Awards for 2001, intended to burst some overinflated XML bubbles.

Continuing our tour on XML for business, we examine the heritage of the newly to-be-developed Universal Business Language, the XML Common Business Library (xCBL). xCBL is a set of XML building blocks and a document framework that allows the creation of robust, reusable, XML documents to facil

by Leigh Dodds – Examining the discussion following the publication of several new Working Drafts, the XML-Deviant discovers that the plans of the XQuery Working Group are not meeting developer expectations.