(Bob Doyle) Back in June 2006 I wrote an XML Editors review article for EContent Magazine that covered a dozen desktop and web-based authoring tools for XML. That article was a bit too hard on both the writer and editorial staff, so we’re not likely to do it again soon. (I may publish a revised stud

(Andy Oram) I spent yesterday at the XML 2007 conference in Boston. It’s smaller than last year’s conference, which is a shame because I liked the sessions I attended better than last year’s. The knowledge and skills of the attendees as well as the presenters seemed impressive. Here are a few musing

(Jack D Herrington) Learn to build a chat system into your Web application with Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and PHP. Your customers can talk to you and to each other about the content of the site without having to download or install any special instant-messaging software.

Looking for advantages of SQLXML I found some interesting things: “SQLXML is a set of supplemental tools that extend SQL Server’s existing support for retrieving and storing XML data. With SQLXML 3.0, you are now able to use SQL Server to expose Web services. SQLXML’s Web services let you execute

(Ben Nadel) I was doing a bunch of stuff with XML and XSL Transformations in ColdFusion the other day and I got really tired of the fact that I had to create an intermediary XSLT variable before I could call the XmlTransform() method. To deal with this, I whipped up a quick little ColdFusion custom

(Victor Volkman) VTD-XML is a suite of innovative XML processing technologies centered around a non-extractive XML parsing technique called Virtual Token Descriptor (VTD). VTD-XML provides interfaces for C, C#, and Java. VTD-XML solves a number of problems inherent with existing DOM and SAX models i

This gallery can load pictures from a xml file and you can rotate, resize and move the pictures.

(James McCaffrey) In the context of using Windows PowerShell for lightweight software test automation, one of the most common tasks you need to perform is parsing data from XML files. For example, you may want to extract test case input and expected result data from an XML test cases file, or you mi

(Kurt Mackie) The latest enterprise relational database management systems (RDBMSes) from market leaders IBM Corp., Microsoft and Oracle Corp. all boast improved XML-handling capabilities.

(Jennifer Kyrnin) Cascading Style Sheets or CSS were developed a few years ago to define the look and feel of markup languages. Extensible Style Sheet Language for Transformations or XSLT were created to transform documents. They are both style sheets, but they serve vastly different purposes.