XML has emerged as the standard for data exchange between applications and across organizational boundaries. With the establishment of common vocabularies and grammars, organizations are quickly automating e-business relationships to increase revenues and reduce expenses. The centralized managemen

by Kip Hampton – This is the second part in a series of articles meant to quickly introduce some of the more popular Perl XML modules. This month we look at the Perl implementations of the standard XML APIs: The Document Object Model, The XPath language, and the Simple API for XML. As sta

By Simon St.Laurent – Eve Maler released two versions of FIXptr (1 2), a proposed simplification of XPointer. Initially mentioned as part of a minority opinion, it wasn't clear if FIXptr could be published. This post provides the FIXptr drafts behind that minority opinion:

Here's your chance to share ideas and code with the best XML developers at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention this summer. Proposals are invited for 30-minute talks covering the very latest developments in XML technology and open source software. These program slots have been lef

A consortium of technology companies and a United Nations organization have finalized a new e-business Web standard that will provide a variety of businesses with a common way of conducting trades online. The group, dubbed Oasis, which includes IBM, Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems, Hewlett-Pa

By Dr. Robert Cherinka – The fundamental requirement is "To provide the right information at the right time, disseminated and displayed in the right way, so that decision makers can do the right things at the right time in the right way"

by Herb Raffaele – Web applications that display data in tabular format and allow users to sort and page through that data can be useful but cumbersome and tedious to implement. You can eliminate the headache of writing similar code over and over by using the client-side capabilities of Extensible M

ACCPAC International, Inc., a division of the interBiz group of Computer Associates (NYSE: CA), announced the availability of ACCPAC Advantage Series(TM) XBRL Financials, a free software add-on that allows companies using ACCPAC Advantage Series General Ledger to export financial reports to an XML-b

Author: Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod The XML Handbook is the definitive entry point to XML for Web professionals — content developers, managers, and programmers — but you needn't be a programmer to read it. Although XML, like HTML, is derived from SGML (which was invented by one

by Piroz Mohseni – Here are three different methods for processing XML documents with JavaServer Pages. Each method increases the level of separation between the page code and the XML data, simplifying page development and improving reusability.