Announcing the 1.0 release of XML Query Engine, a Java-based search component for small to medium-sized collections of XML document, Howard Katz of Fatdog noted also that "early experimental support" for XQuery is included. XML Query Engine currently uses XQL as its query language; the engin

by Sean McGrath – Provides all the information, explanations, working examples, and software packages (on the accompanying CD-ROM) needed to start writing XML-processing applications in Python quickly. CD-ROM also includes several additional resources.

A communiqué from Russell F. Moody of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reports on the recent release of the EIA Standard 836 for public review and comment. Developed by member organizations of the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA), the EIA-836

Ovidiu Predescu has announced the release of xslt-process 2.0, a minor mode for GNU Emacs/XEmacs that adds XSLT processing and debugging capabilities to the popular kitchen-sink editor.

The W3C XML Encryption Working Group has released a first public working draft for XML Encryption Syntax and Processing. The formal model for syntax is provided in W3C XML Schema notation. The working draft "specifies a process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML. The data may

By Olivier Eymere – One of your largest problems is html. Html is is presentation oriented. When you write html the focus is on how the page will look. The actual data in the page is secondary to the layout. There are now many tools to help make web pages look nice but they do not help make sense of

Given SOAP's role as the underlying specification for Web services, the work being done on the SOAPBuilders discussion list regarding the state of XML, and particularly, SOAP interop has attracted a lot of attention on Web news sites, weblogs, and trade publications. XML Magazine Editor in Chief

By Andy Hoskinson – XML may soon become the most common mark-up language on the Web. As a result, even banner ads will eventually be written it. Here's how.

This Sun Technical White Paper (in PDF format) that presents an overview of the company's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for XML.

By icarus Melonfire – In the first part of this article, I said that there were two approaches to parsing an XML document. SAX is one; the other uses the DOM to build a tree representation of the XML data structures in the document, and then offers built-in methods to navigate through this tree. Onc