by Bob DuCharme – If the specialized elements of the XSLT namespace and the combined functions of XSLT and XPath aren't enough to perform the transformations you need, XSLT gives you ways to incorporate additional instruction elements and functions into your stylesheets. Most XSLT processors off

By Nicholas Chase – Even before there was XML, there was the Document Object Model (DOM). The DOM allows a developer to refer to, retrieve, and change items within an XML structure, and is essential to working with XML. In this tutorial, you will learn about the structure of a DOM document. You will

Sam Brauer has annouced the release of maki 1.1.0, the latest version of his dynamic XML web serving environment that utilizes Apache and mod_python. Maki takes an approach to page generation not dissimilar to that of Cocoon, and may be interesting to those who prefer a Python-based environme

By Brett McLaughlin – The Document Object Model (DOM) offers useful modules to extend its core functionality in advanced ways. This article examines the DOM Traversal module in depth, showing how to find out if this module is supported in your parser and how to use it to walk either sets of selected

dom4j is an easy to use, open source library for working with XML, XPath and XSLT on the Java platform using the Java Collections Framework and with full support for DOM, SAX and JAXP.

by Micah Dubinko – Think about how many times a day you use forms, electronic or otherwise. On the Web, forms have truly become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Nearly all user interaction on the Web is through forms of some sort. Th

Scott Seely tests the promise of interoperability by comparing the process of writing clients for a Web Service with three popular non-Microsoft toolkits: Apache, SOAP::Lite, and SOAPy.

by Mark Wilson – Originally, SGML was the flavour of the month. SGML documents were structured using DTDs. With the advent of XML, the DTD had some good features and some bad features. Before we discuss the various types of schemas, let's take a look at the pros and cons of DTD and schemas.

by Brett McLaughlin – This excerpt is Chapter 12 from Java & XML, 2nd Edition , to be published in September 2001 by O'Reilly.SOAP is the Simple Object Access Protocol. If you haven't heard of it by now, you've probably been living under a rock somewhere. It's become the newe

by Mark Wilson – When Microsoft introduced ADO 2.0, a new method was included on the Recordset object – the Save method. The Save method accepts two arguments, FileName and PersistFormat. At the time, the only PersistFormat you could use was "adPersistADTG” which was a binary format.