by Kendall Grant Clark – As historian David Noble says, technology isn't a "disembodied historical force impinging upon" human affairs. That's never seemed more obvious than it now seems for members of the XML development community, who have been talking lately, not of technic

by John B. O'Donahue – One of the most interesting new developments in XML processing has been the introduction of the Xbean. Xbeans are small and simple software components that take XML as input and process it in some way, passing XML on to the next Xbean. This approach lends itself very well

Using XSLT to produce HTML pages becomes more and more popular. In our last column we examined an approach that dynamically generates content out of a servlet engine. Many Web sites still only serve static pages that have been uploaded through FTP, though. With the subsequently introduced XMLcmNOW,

The Open ebXML Project have released tools supporting document generation for ebXML Business Process Analysis worksheets, and Finetix have released an open source tool for processing FpML, the financial products markup language.

This chapter is designed to put XSLT in context. It's about the purpose of XSLT and the task it was designed to perform. It's about what kind of language it is, and how it came to be that way; and it's about how XSLT fits in with all the other technologies that you are likely to use in

The CD contains articles on XML and Web services, tutorials on transforming XML documents and messaging with Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), related IBM white papers, and more.

by Wei Meng Lee – Most XML developers are familiar with using Document Type Definitions (DTDs)—a schema that defines the content model of an XML document—to enforce the structure of XML documents. However, DTD has several shortcomings. First, it is not an XML document, so XML parsers do not process

ESPS, Inc. (d/b/a. Liquent), the premier provider of global content access and transformation technology, announced a partnership with Software AG, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Software AG, the largest systems software provider in Europe and a pioneer in XML technologies. This partnership will offer

Mark Lucovsky is Microsoft's chief architect of HailStorm, and Charles Fitzgerald is director of business development at Microsoft. XML Magazine's Editorial Director Steve Gillmor and Stuart J. Johnston, contributing editor, talked with Lucovsky and Montgomery about HailStorm's individua

by Bob DuCharme – When an XSLT stylesheet converts one XML document into another, the ability to add unique ID values to elements in the result document can make the result document much more useful to applications that use it. Adding unique IDs can, for example, turn each element into the unique ta