by Eric van der Vlist – The W3C XML Schema Definition Language is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. W3C XML Schema is a W3C Recommendation. This article is an introduction to using W3C XML Schemas, and also includes a comprehensive reference to the

This article shows you an easy way to generate PDF files dynamically for display in a browser by using an XSL vocabulary called XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects). A special type of XSL-FO called Formatting Objects for PDF (FOP) works in conjunction with the Document Object M

XMLCities, Inc., the technology leader in XML publishing, has introduced XMLMakerÔ Suite, a comprehensive software suite designed for XML and document professionals to efficiently convert unstructured documents into high-quality XML content. Unlike other XML editors or authoring tools, XMLMaker Suit

CF_XMLRPC is a set of tags that implements the Remote Procedure Call over XML (XML-RPC) specification in ColdFusion. These tags let you create XMLRPC clients and servers for building distributed applications (web services). This version of XMLRPC requires ColdFusion 5.0 and the MSXML3 processor.

Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 introduced several new features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document. Web release 1 of SQLXML (XML for SQL Server) added Updategrams and XML Bulk Load functionality, as well as a host of other features to the SQL Server 2000 base.

by Kip Hampton – Last month we began our exploration of more advanced SAX topics with a look at how SAX events can be generated from non-XML data. This month, we conclude the series by introducing SAX filters and their use in XML data transformation.

By Clint Boulton – In its ongoing efforts to tinker with characteristics of the important Extensible Markup Language, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) said it has issued the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 1.0 — an XML-based language that spells how XML documents will be formatted — as a r

Xselerator features an advanced editor, with auto-completion for attribute and element names, and syntax coloring support for XSLT, XML and HTML; an XSLT debugger, with breakpoints and stepping; XSLT transformer, including support for third party XSLT processors; and an XPath query analyzer.

Professional XML Web Services from Wrox Press is a complete guide to today's hot technology, Web Services. The book is divided into 13 chapters, 2 case studies and 3 appendices, and is targeted towards all (C++, VB, Java, .NET, Python, Perl, PHP…) developers. It's an excellent resource to le

by Kendall Grant Clark – This week I will consider how the W3C is responding to the massive show of opposition to RAND — at last count the W3C had received more than 2,000 public comments — as well as provide an update of the XML development community's ongoing conversation about patents, inte