(Danny) I’ve used the 2005 XML features for a few things now and I’m getting to quite like it. One thing I’ve found is that it is a lot easier to get data into XML than it is to get it back out again.

(Douglas Crockford) I was invited to speak at XML 2007 last month. I was given the topic “Does XML have a future on the web?” My answer was “yes.” As evidence, I offered that there are still people selling Cobol compilers. Once this stuff gets into the enterprise, it can take generations to get rid

(Rob Lybarger) In this article, I will demonstrate some basic techniques for reading XML file data using straight Java code and no third-party libraries. Although I am in fact a fan of third-party libraries (examples include JDOM and DOM4J, among others), sometimes they are a tool too powerful for a

(Raymond Camden) A few weeks ago I blogged about an alternative to ColdFusion’s built in charts, Google’s Chart API. This week I discovered another alternative, XML/SWF Charts. This isn’t a free option, but they have a free license with limitations and the price for a “full” copy is only 45 bucks fo

(Anthony Coates) A few years ago now, I was a (junior) member of the OASIS Entity Resolution TC, which produced the OASIS XML Catalogs specification (HTML, PDF). XML Catalogs are used to specify simple rules for re-writing or re-directing URIs in XML documents. This work was based on the catalogues

(Bil Simser) I’m currently doing a major automation-overhaul to our projects, trying to streamline everything. Part of this involves doing automated deployments of the projects to a location (say a file or web server) where a QA person can come along later and with the click of a button they can jus

(Melissa Peterman) OOXML, (Open Office XML) is an XML specification for documents like spreadsheets, notes, presentations and just about any other form of digital media. Because Office 2007 already saves files in OOXML, any enterprise currently using Office 2007, is already authoring directly into X

(Denny Cherry) Recently I was working on a project where I needed to use a foreach loop with an SSIS project, but couldn’t for the life of me get it to properly process the XML document which I was giving it. Well with some major work and digging I was able to get it working correctly, but it took

(Michael Sperberg-McQueen) Earlier this month, the opening session of the XML 2007 conference was devoted to a panel session on the topic “Does XML have a future on the Web?” Doug Crockford (of JSON fame) and Michael Day (of YesLogic) and I talked for a bit, and then the audience pitched in.

(Kurt Cagle) Once again into the breach, dear friends. I’ve made it a habit over the last several years to put together a list of both my own forecasts for the upcoming year in the realm of XML technologies and technology in general and, with some misgivings, to see how far off the mark I was from t