This document lists new features introduced in the Microsoft XML Parser 4.0 (MSXML 4.0) Technology Preview, and provides a download link.

From business-to-business supply chain management, through to providing web services, interoperability will play a key role in the next generation of Internet-enabled applications. Developers will be increasingly faced with the challenges of having their applications communicate with other systems.

The Intel(R) NetStructure(TM) 7280 XML Director won in the e-Commerce Acceleration Device category. The XML Director is a network device designed to accelerate and intelligently control secure XML-based Internet transactions so that business-to-business e-Commerce can take place faster and more reli

by Alan Kotok – XML has spawned a number of new initiatives to improve the way enterprises, including government and not-for-profit organizations, do business. A meeting held on 24 April 2001 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D,C focused on applying XML to the process of crafting legislation, with the

By TODD R. WEISS – Six months after the tumultuous presidential balloting in Florida, a nonprofit technical consortium yesterday announced that it has formed a committee to develop a specialized XML standard aimed at improving the accuracy and efficiency of elections.

By Simon St.Laurent – In a minority opinion, Eve Maler and Paul Grosso suggest that "that XPointer would benefit from offering the option of a much more modest feature set." Maler and Grosso propose something much smaller than the complete XPointer proposal, "along the lines o

by Edd Dumbill – Last week I attended the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference in Hong Kong, the most important annual conference for developers, academics, and publishers working with the Web. This article is a collection of reports written from the conference.

by Demir Barlas, Line56 – After two years of research and development, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommended the adoption of XML Schema, its pet specification of the XML protocol. A W3C release laid out up some of the technical and practical advantages of XML Schema. Of particul

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

By Ronald Bourret – A common question in the XML community is how to map XML to databases. This article discusses two mappings: a table-based mapping and an object-relational (object-based) mapping. Both mappings model the data in XML documents rather than the documents themselves. This makes the ma