XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), formerly code named XFRML, is a freely available electronic language for financial reporting. It is an XML-based framework that provides the financial community a standards-based method to prepare, publish in a variety of formats, reliably extract and a

The "Check or Validate XML" section of the XML Cover Pages is a listing of several online XML checkers that will test a submitted online page in one of three ways: a well-formedness check, a syntax check, or a validation check. Links to additional testing and validation resources are also in

DOM fans will be happy to see a new release of the Java based dom4j, and domc an implementation of DOM Core Level 1 in ANSI C.

In this article, the second of three, Dirk Reinshagen introduces SOAP to the XML messaging equation. He begins by describing SOAP and other related technologies, then reinforces with a simple example using SOAP to create an invoice.

XML Schemas are the preferred way of specifying XML content models these days. Schemas are more expressive than DTDs, but how do you upgrade your self-defined DTDs? A tool provided by the W3C helps along the way.

Roger Costello has produced two useful simple type definitions for XML Schema authors. These define all known currencies, and ISBN identifiers.

In this article, the first of three, Dirk Reinshagen discusses XML messaging, specifically the basic premise of XML messaging, what it is, and why it is useful. Further, he presents a simple XML message broker for custom XML messages. In the course of developing this broker, he introduces general br

by Simon St. Laurent, Joe Johnston, Edd Dumbill – This excerpt from O'Reilly & Associates' recently published Programming Web Services with XML-RPC discusses using PHP to integrate two web applications into a single interface. In the given example, the authors show how a technology news serv

Peter Murray-Rust and Henry Rzepa have announced new and updated tools and demonstrations the Chemical Markup Language, described as "the most mature and developed 'science domain specific' application of XML."

This is the first installment of Working XML, a column with companion project code that demonstrates the evolution of full-fledged XML applications. In this column, author and software consultant Benoît Marchal introduces XM (XSLT Make), a simple and affordable Web publishing content-management solu