Members of the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) announced plans to use ebXML as the backbone of their new data exchange standard for business-to-business trade in the consumer goods industry. ebXML, an initiative of the United Nations CEFACT and OASIS, will provide the technical infrastructure for t

If you're like me, you rely on your Palm organizer to keep a semblance of order in your life. Without it, I wouldn't get to meetings on time, or remember to participate in telephone conference calls, or know how to reach my colleagues when I'm on the road. Unfortunately, for all its ben

The XML Bible is a comprehensive introduction to using XML for Web page design. It shows you how to write XML documents, validate them with DTDs, design CSS and XSL style sheets for those documents, convert them to HTML, and publish them on Web servers for the world to read.

Few XML developers haven't heard of XHTML. Ask one of them to describe what it is, and the answer you get will be something like: "it's just HTML 4 expressed in XML." This is quite true, but it only captures what is the first phase of a much more ambitious task. Take a look at the W3

XSLT includes built-in template rules to copy the text element content from a source tree to a result tree. Comments and processing instructions, however, get left out of this; unless you specify otherwise, an XSLT processor ignores them. You can specify otherwise, and this ability gives you access

This manuscript is an abridged version of a chapter from the Wrox Press book Professional Java XML Programming with Servlets and JSP. JSPs and Java Beans

The goals of the Apache XML Project project are to provide commercial-quality standards-based XML solutions that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion, to provide feedback to standards bodies (such as IETF and W3C) from an implementation perspective, and to be a focus for XML-related acti

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the XML Base specification to Candidate Recommendation status. The document describes a mechanism for providing base URI services to XLink and to other XML applications benefiting from control over relative URIs.

The fourth Working Draft of Canonical XML Version 1.0 has been released, addressing comments received during Last Call that ended 28 July. It is the goal of this specification to establish a method for determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a docum

This manuscript is an abridged version of a chapter from the Wrox Press book XSLT PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE . This is chapter 1 – 'XSLT IN CONTEXT' and is about the purpose of XSLT and the task it was designed to perform. It's about what kind of language it is and how it fits in with al