by Edd Dumbill – Last week, the World Wide Web Consortium issued Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 as a Recommendation. SVG, as its name implies, is an XML application for describing two-dimensional graphics in the form of vector-based objects. As well as allowing normal 2D drawings, SVG is scripta

by Mark Wilson – Load the DOM document into a DOM object called objPeopleRoot. Create a Element object called objPersonElement (of the type IXMLDOMElement). Then use this code to iterate through the elements in the DOM object:

More companies are using XML in their database and e-commerce projects, but there’s a wide disparity in how pleased those organizations are with the results. Cutter Consortium recently surveyed 272 information technology managers regarding their XML plans. Of those surveyed, 33 percent noted

The XSLT Cookbook is a new project based on the Python Cookbook. The idea behind "online Cookbooks" is to get people to contribute "recipes" that other people could then take and use in their programs. The XSLT Cookbook only deals with snippets of code and discussions around t

By: Paul Festa – After more than a year of revisions, the World Wide Web Consortium on Wednesday recommended specifications for graphics and animation that backers say could give popular Web technologies a run for their money. The W3C recommended SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), advancing it f

Command Prompt have announced DocBook Pro, a collection of tools for processing SGML and XML DocBook documents. DocBook Pro comes in two flavors, Basic and Deluxe. The Basic edition, $69.95 per seat, includes the following tools:

by Eric M. Burke – This excerpt is Chapter 5 from Java and XSLT, to be published in September 2001 by O'Reilly.Since many of the XSLT processors are written in Java, they can be directly invoked from a Java application or servlet. Embedding the processor into a Java application is genera

By Nicholas Chase – This tutorial examines the use of the Simple API for XML version 2.0, or SAX 2.0. It is aimed at developers who have an understanding of XML and wish to learn this lightweight, event-based API for working with XML data. It assumes that you are familiar with concepts such as well-

By icarus – In the concluding part of this article, I will be examining a bunch of other XSLT constructs, all designed to make your XSLT experience that much more enjoyable. Some of these constructs are extremely simple and logical; others offer capabilities typically found only in programming langu

by Leigh Dodds – Last week the XML-Deviant noted that the recent squabbles concerning typing, XML, and W3C XML Schemas hinted at increasing divides in the XML community. There are further signs this week, including many comments about accepting the diversity of XML applications, differing requiremen