(Eliot Kimber) The XML Recommendation is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, that is, the anniversary of the official publication of the Recommendation on 10 February 1998. However I think of XML as really starting in 1996, when the activity was revealed publicly for the first time at the SGML 2006

(Jeff Williams) Fundamentally, there’s nothing terribly new about the problems posed by Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) when it comes to security, we just need to apply some good old security principles to this new technology.

(Jeni Tennison) Another question to answer: I’ve been reading about RDF, and I’m not sure in what situations it is more appropriate to use RDF over straight XML. I usually see RDF expressed as XML, but sometimes I see it written as language-independent functions (or methods).

A user on Programming Talk had a problem the other day. He was trying to build an XML parser to work with an xml data file (a character sheet from the WoW Armory).

(Jennifer Kyrnin) The latest specification of the Extensible Markup Language is available online at the W3C. This specification completely describes XML. But it can be fairly difficult to understand. In this article, we will examine several parts of the XML specification in order to understand the b

(Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan) In terms of security, the increased transparency of Ajax applications is probably the most significant difference between Ajax and traditional Web applications. Billy Hoffman and Bryan Sullivan explain why it’s in your best interest to keep as much business logic a

(Michael Kay) An interesting little spat on the XQuery internal mailing list over the last couple of days on the question of whether or not XQuery Update guarantees to preserve node identity. The spec says that it does. Someone remarked during a telcon that there were difficulties meeting this requi

(Marco Gralike) I was asked, also after the former post “Selecting (XML) data directly from disk”, what the best way would be to save data directly (locally) to disk via XMLDB methods. I proposed a simple solution based on DBMS_XMLDOM.WRITETOFILE, I will demonstrate this below. My colleague Anton ca

(Nicholas Chase) XML seems like a natural format for passing Ajax data. However, to work with XML in JavaScript using the Document Object Model (DOM) is not always the best way to handle this kind of data. This has given rise to other choices, such as JSON, which provide a more object-like feel for

(Miguel de Melo) There is a common misunderstanding about the use of special characters by Xpath expressions in XSL and Xpath expressions in other languages, I’ll try to help clarify some of the myths in this blog.