by Leigh Dodds To say that XML Namespaces have been hotly debated over the last two years is a major understatement. Much confusion has been the result of using URIs, or more commonly URLs, as the unique identifier for a Namespace. For many developers this naturally raises the question: "Wh

Nat Makarevitch writes with news of IDX XMnesia, an Erlang library allowing storage of XML data in an Mnesia database. Mnesia is a distributed database management system, suitable for continuous operation soft real-time applications. It is part of Erlang.

By Jeremy Lowery There has been quite a bit of hype about XML in the past few years. Some people see it as a universal fix for all data management problems. Others see it as another non-standardized technology that could end up destroying the web because of its pure extensible nature. Of cours

As XML moves into the mainstream of development, it's becoming obvious to many of us who write XML applications that XML editing and other development features are sorely lacking. Thus far, companies such as Microsoft, Sun, and IBM have focused on improving the speed and information-retrieval ca

by Karl F. Best The mission of OASIS is to promote and encourage the use of structured information standards such as XML and SGML. An important part of this mission is the development of vertical industry applications, conformance tests, interoperability specifications, and so on that make core

Over the holiday break members of XML-DEV have decided to put a constructive end to the controversy over what should be "at the end" of a dereferenceable namespace URI. The activity commenced after a long and involved discussion centering around the practice of placing XML Schemas at the

by Karen Heyman, Tristan Louis, Scott M. Fulton III The leading contender for the communications protocol that facilitates the world's business transactions is designed to transmit data over HTTP, in the clear. Although some of the creators of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) have expre

By Michael Smith Version 0.92 of the Tcl/Tk-based epcEdit SGML/XML editor application has been released, adding "alpha" support for WYSIWYG editing of CALS and OASIS Exchange Table Model tables. CALS and its OASIS Exchange subset are the table models employed in the widely used DocBo

By Alain Trottier Today we'll demonstrate a solution for an industry acknowledged problem: XML Bloat. Encapsulating data in XML aids transaction interchange between systems reducing what I call 'data friction'. However, the XML file is always bigger, sometimes much bigger, than the

by Leigh Dodds As the year 2000 draws to a close, the XML-Deviant looks back at the year's events in the XML developer community, bringing you the 12 Days of XML Christmas.