By Paul Cornell – In the following section, I will demonstrate how to call an XML Web service from Office. For a more detailed discussion of XML Web services, see Behind the Scenes: A Technical Explanation of XML Web Services at the end of this section. For more information on building your own XML

By Nicholas Chase – This tutorial examines the validation of XML documents using either Document Type Definitions (DTDs) or XML Schema. It is aimed at developers who have a need to control the types and content of the data in their XML documents.

Tuesday, October 9, 2001: 10:00 A.M. Pacific daylight time – XML is everywhere in Microsoft .NET, and this session will explain what that really means. We will discuss how the .NET platform and components are integrated by XML. We will also talk about what classes and API you can use in .NET Framewo

XML Editor is a clean, simple and powerful graphical XML editing and validation tool. It features full DTD validation, but doesn't require a DTD if you only want to do well-formedness validation. It gives meaningful messages that point you a conflict with the XML to the DTD, and tell you why you

by John E. Simpson – Q: I need help with two DTD questions…I am having trouble with a DTD not enforcing some rules I'm trying to create. Rule 1: Enforce a range of occurrences of one element inside another.

by Edd Dumbill – Over the last six months, the downturn in the tech sector has dampened many a wild and hopeful grab for dot-com glory, and we're now faced with the prospect of an even more widespread economic malaise. So there are points of inflection in our comprehension of the world ar

This Thinking XML column shows how to combine metadata collected from multiple XML source documents into a single Resource Description Framework (RDF) model for effective querying. In this follow-up to his previous installment that introduced how to use XML and RDF together for knowledge management,

Those wishing to submit late-breaking news or vendor presentations for IDEAlliance's XML 2001 conference must do so by October 1.

By Thor Olavsrud – Working on the assumption that customers are sold on applications and not technology — and that customers know their needs best — networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. launched a community Web site that aims to connect its IP telephony services customers with independent XML devel

Apache Cocoon 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the Apache Cocoon XML publishing framework that is supposed to remove all those design constraint that emerged from the Apache Cocoon 1 experience. This documentation is alpha, like anything else, so don't expect that much. If you are not a devel