(A. Russell Jones) XML documents excel at validating, extracting, storing, and transmitting hierarchical data, but as they become more common, the need to merge data stored in different XML documents increases as well. You can use XSLT to merge data from two or more XML documents into a single docum

By icarus Melonfire – The strange thing about XML, though, is that it's very hard to figure out where to start. It doesn't take long to figure out the basics of creating an XML file, or the rules for XML markup. However, that's where most novice developers hit a brick wall; XML documenta

The W3C released initial drafts of XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature.

Interest in peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is growing rapidly, as shown by the popularity of services such as Napster and Gnutella. Sun Microsystems started a project called JXTA to examine the potential of a generic P2P platform, which is described here.

Douglas F. Gray – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Wednesday announced the publication of two W3C recommendations regarding XML (extensible markup language), which are aimed at standardizing more features of the language.

Reuters have released NewsML Toolkit v1.0, developed in conjunction with David Megginson, to assist in creating applications for the NewsML news publishing framework. The open source toolkit, licensed under the LGPL, is a set of Java classes that aid the accessing and manipulation of News

VoiceXML is designed for creating audio dialogs that feature synthesized speech, digitized audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF key input, recording of spoken input, telephony, and mixed-initiative conversations. Its major goal is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content deliver

In his turn on the Soapbox, info-management developer and author Kevin Williams tells why he's sold on XML Schema for the structural definition of XML documents for data. He looks at four features of XML Schema that are particularly suited to data representation, and he shows some examples of ea

by Leigh Dodds – XML-DEV has been the site of a rather juicy debate this week, concerning one of the W3C's latest Working Drafts: a revision of XML 1.0 codenamed "Blueberry".

Eric Schmidt – In this issue of Extreme XML, we are going to examine the importance of schema usage and the use of serialization technology to leverage XML in your applications and services. The majority of development tasks today revolve around developers taking existing infrastructure (business co