by Edd Dumbill – This article is adapted from the closing keynote speech I delivered at XML Europe 2001 in Berlin, May 2001. I describe the progress of XML over the last year, emphasizing that in an industry increasingly dominated by large vendors, individual contributors are still key.

X-Hive Corporation has announced X-Hive/DB 1.1, a persistent DOM implementation built on top of the Objectivity object oriented database.

By Piroz MohseniCheck out the ability to compile XSLT. Learn about XSLTC and translets as well!

By Eric van der Vlist – Graham Moore presented "RDF and Topic Maps: An Exercise in Convergence" (pdf), a demonstration that Topic Maps can be modeled in RDF and RDF can be modeled as Topic Maps, along with a proposal to define a metadata-based mapping to transition between the two languages.

In this article we detail the reasons for undertaking the development of a digital packaging standard and describe in depth a package manifest scheme that potentially addresses the enumerated needs. In doing so, we show how such a scheme effectively disassociates the notion of content item from indi

by Daniel Nehren – The problem of connecting client-server applications through a firewall has been haunting programmers for a long time. Most of the time, a corporate firewall opens the fewest ports possible. Normally, the only port you will have available is port 80—the one used for the Web.

by Alan Sproat – So, gathering data from HTML is not always easy. However, with reasonably well-formatted HTML and some minor editing, you can turn these Web pages into manageable XML from which you can extract the data you need. Not only that, but the XML also lets you know if the document format h

A book by Erik T. Ray.Although Learning XML covers XML rather broadly, it nevertheless presents the key elements of the technology with enough detail to familiarize the reader with this crucial markup language. This guide is brief enough to tackle in a weekend.

By Kurt Cagle – Modern XML technology rests on three distinct legs: the XML specification itself, XSLT/XPath, and XML Schema. Schemas are significant not only in defining XML structures but also in providing data type capabilities to XML, adding a measure of object oriented programming support, and

by Reza B'Far with Roger Richards and Stephen Ditlinger – By quantifying quality assurance and use case analysis, you can create an efficient wireless user interface for transmitting content via XML.