Edd Dumbill examines the W3C's new architectural watchdog, the TAG, and whether it will have much influence over the development of XML.

By icarus Melonfire – Now that you know the basics, this article explains how to use XML's more advanced constructs to author complex XML documents. Entities, namespaces, CDATA blocks, processing instructions – they're all in here, together with aliens, idiots, secret agents and buried treas

The W3C's SVG Working Group have published two new drafts, explaining requirements for SVG 1.1/2.0 and for SVG on mobile devices.

DirXML is Novell's directory interchange software that uses XML to keep different directories synchronized. With DirXML, an IT manager can administer multiple user databases from a single interface, using Novell Directory Services (NDS) eDirectory to replicate the information. DirXML works withi

Microsoft and its partners are planning 75 BizTalk Server 2000 adapters that will be targeted at small and medium-sized businesses and designed to simplify connection of back-office and enterprise applications to companies' business process servers.<br> <br> The adapters will translate and exc

Expat, the C-based XML parser originally created by James Clark, has had a new release, including build support for Windows.

By Kevin Williams – This column takes a look at how to use XLink pointers when representing data to make XML documents more compact and flexible. Sample code shows examples of an invoice with and without the XLink pointers, plus an example of using XLinks with a URL-addressable database.

by Claude Duguay – XML provides a vehicle for representing virtually any kind of data collection. Organized structures can be thought of as languages that may be interpreted, such as a collection of business rules. We'll look at simple Java-based tools that help you get more mileage out of both

The Sun Multi-Schema XML Validator (MSV) is a Java[tm] technology tool to validate XML documents against several kinds of XML schemata. It supports RELAX NG, RELAX Namespace, RELAX Core, TREX, XML DTDs, and a subset of XML Schema Part 1. This download package includes binaries, sample source code, a

by A. Russell Jones – Ever since Microsoft released Active Server Pages (ASP), people have been using it to display database data in HTML-formatted tables—and arguing about the most efficient method. Now that XSLT has joined the race, I wanted to know whether using XSLT could have any effect on effi