The W3C XML Schema Working Group has published a list of strong concerns regarding the XInclude Last Call Working Draft and its lack of harmonization with the "other foundation specifications." Mary Holstege, for the W3C XML Schema Working Group, has posted a list of inconsistenci

By Chris Curry – If you are a developer who is hooked on XML (like me), at one time or another you’ve probably wanted to offer a means for your application users to edit your XML documents directly. If you’ve done this via a web-based interface then you’ve probably come across Microsoft’s XML DSO, o

Bill LaForge announced version 4.1 of JXQuick, a tool for mapping XML to Java objects and back, and version 3.0 of JXUnit, a unit testing tool which uses XML to define unit tests of Java code.

by Edd Dumbill – O'Reilly will run its first ever XML conference this year, XTech 2001, as part of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. XTech 2001 will maintain the technical excellence established by its debut last year under the aegis of the GCA (in association with which this year's c

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by Leigh Dodds – SAX users will be interested in a little exchange (actually a disagreement) that took place on XML-DEV this week about how SAX might best be altered to support entity catalogs. Regular readers will remember that the issue of using catalogs — a means to map SYSTEM and PUBLIC identif

Microsoft is taking XML Web services to the next level and publishing three additional specifications on http://www.gotdotnet.com. The three specifications are the SOAP Routing Protocol (SOAP-RP), XLANG, and the Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) protocol. Each of these three specification

JoAnn Hackos of Seminars in Usable Design invites you to attend a special session of Developing a Single-Sourcing Strategy. During this workshop, you'll get the full benefit of the Single-Sourcing seminar along with the opportunity to work hands-on with the co-host's XML editor in the comput

by Igor Dayen – There are various ways to solve the problem of effective, automatic conversion of XML data into and out of relational databases. Database vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Sybase have developed tools to assist in converting XML documents into relational tables. The various

A Data Access Worldwide White Paper by Chris Hibbert – This article examines the usage of Extensible Markup Language (XML) data files with Visual DataFlex. We start with an initial high level view of what XML offers, and how Visual DataFlex makes using it a simple process. For those with a more tech