I first became interested in XML over a year ago. After initial reading and discovery I could see uses for it and wished to incorporate it into my web sites. While Microsoft’s plans for XML in the fall of 1999 seemed promising, finding concrete examples and documentation was difficult. Since then, M

XML promises to make a fundamental impact on how businesses interact with information through Web technology. It heralds a robust and highly scalable solution to the data and content mining requirements demanded by many of today's information-centric businesses. But few companies have considered

On October 13, 2000, Sun Microsystems announced the public availability of XML DTDs and source code for StarOffice software. Development is being coordinated through OpenOffice.org. "OpenOffice.org will also allow other companies the opportunity to license the source for commercial release under

Most programmers know that one of the major benefits of Extensible Markup Language (XML) is that it allows the complete isolation of a document's style and content. This means that information can be re-used and displayed as the programmer chooses, regardless of its storage format. Or more speci

IBM Corp. (stock: IBM) made seven nascent technologies–six of them based on XML — available for licensing through its alphaWorks unit.

XML Global Technologies, Inc. (www.xmlglobal.com), developers of the world’s premier XML based search and transformation e-business software products, goXML™ and expressXCHG™, today announced it has completed a software add-on to goXML™ version 2.0 that will allow arbitrary tables from any ODBC/JDBC

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is a new XML grammar for defining vector-based 2D graphics for the Web and other applications. This article provides a brief introduction to SVG, followed by four examples of SVG graphics, and links to two code samples.

XML Global Technologies, Inc. (www.xmlglobal.com), developers of the world’s premier XML-based search and transformation e-business software products, today announced it has signed a strategic software development alliance with Aztec Software Inc. (www.aztecsoft.com) , an e-engineering solutions com

This article presents the features of Formatting Objects (FO) as they are applied when transforming slide XML files (validated using the Slides DTD) to FO. The features correspond to the features supported by the current version of the Apache FO-to-PDF project (FOP). With the XSLT stylesheet applied

This article explains how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM. A lot of people have been asking me questions lately about how to make their XML files transfer data properly between different platforms. They create an XML document, type in data, stick a few