by John E. Simpson – I've been writing the "XML Q&A" column for a year now. An anniversary seems a good occasion to think about the questions I wish I'd been able to answer during that time — questions no one ever asks. Let's start with an easy one.

This article provides in-depth answers to frequently asked development questions regarding Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0.

The Apache XML Project have released updates to the C++ version of XSLT processor Xalan, and the next generation of their Java XML parser, Xerces 2. Xalan C++ 1.2 includes the following improvements over version 1.1:

Facilitate the process of globalizing an application by organizing translatable resources in XML documents. You can use this technique to externalize the translatable content of your documents into language-specific subdocuments, as well as to structure XML documents, along with user-specified XML e

by Leigh Dodds – XML-DEV has been busy recently with a number of long running threads drawing in some interesting postings. The underlying theme has been general orientation on how best to understand and come to terms with particular technologies, ranging from Schemas to Web Services. This week the

In this detailed tip, Benoit Marchal explains how SAXTransformerFactory — a class that feeds SAX events directly in an XSLT processor — buys you greater flexibility when you save XML files. Several reusable Java code samples demonstrate the techniques, which require TrAX.

by Edd Dumbill – One of the things that has made XML famous is the angle bracket; the pleasing symmetry of the opened and the closed. Angle brackets are key to the particular strength of XML, a uniform and universally agreed syntax. It is hardly surprising, then, that the angle bracket

The latest version of the Apache XML Project's XSL Formatting Objects processor, FOP, incorporates the Batik SVG renderer. This gives FOP much improved support for rendering SVG diagrams. FOP is a print formatter capable of processing XSL-FO and creating PDF files. Other improvements in t

The draft, "produced through the efforts of a joint task force of the W3C XML Query Working Group and the W3C XML Schema Working Group and a second joint task force of the W3C XML Query Working Group and the W3C XSL Working Group", describes how to process type information specified by W3C X

By Aaron Skonnard – In retrospect, it seems obvious that OLE DB would never become a true universal standard for exposing and accessing information because it faced competition from other vendors. Since OLE DB is a COM technology and COM itself never became universally supported across platforms, it