Interested in learning more about XML? Pawan's latest article gives us a brief introduction into XML and its roots.

Do you cringe when you hear the words "XML"? Are you just not sure what the heck this acronym is all about? Not to worry! In this article, Liviu introduces us to XML, the various ways it can be created and parsed, as well as a brief introduction to XML and the way it came to be.

Doing a hard refresh every time the client needs more information makes the interface difficult for a user to use in complex applications and causes unnecessary strain on the network because frequently the same data is being sent to the client repeatedly. Dennis Hurst examines the problem and provides a XML/ASP solution.

SQL Server is packed with features for retrieving XML documents. Steven Woods offers a demonstration of extending a SQL Query via the RAW, AUTO, and EXPLICIT modes to illustrate the functionality available. The article then discusses the concept of templates, which allow the creation of dynamic parameter-based XML documents, and how templates can be executed via Visual Basic.

This article discusses how Windows DNA affects team development and how it can be improved using XML, XSLT, and XML Schemas.

The XML data island in IE 5.x provides a simple and convenient way to dynamically alter the content of a Web page using data stored either locally or remotely in XML format.

Using traditional ASP, Web servers are forced to do all the work in creating a page. This includes getting the data, formatting the output, and sending it to the client. With XML and XSL, the server only needs to get the data in XML format and send that and the XSL to the client. The client will then use its CPU power to transform the XML into HTML using the XSL style sheet. This approach will allow your Web servers to handle many more concurrent users.

Every generation remakes Shakespeare for itself with new costumes, new set designs, and new interpretations. But, despite numerous advances in humanities computing, variorum editions of the works of Shakespeare have relied on models established well before the digital age. Since the nineteenth century, scholars have slowly worked through the plays and sonnets to create definitive, variorum editions that include the variations of each line of each play as well as all of the major critical commentary. The undertaking, which was assumed by the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 1936, is obviously mammoth. But until recently, the variorum editions -- thick with special typographical marks and a complex web of cross-references -- were prepared solely as print texts running hundreds of pages long. Later this year, however, the MLA will bring the New Variorum Shakespeare (NVS) project into the world of XML for the first time.

A while back, I wrote about the changing face of XML, and said that XML and relational databases appeared to be a slow starter. XML database guru Ron Bourret wrote back with a different perspective.

XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today the availability of two new toolkits for its Content@ content management and workflow software application. These feature-rich toolkits enhance the capabilities in Content@ by providing a collaborative editorial and publishing review environment, as well as enabling broader sets of users to interact with the system with standard Microsoft(R) Office(TM) applications.

Recent data access offerings focus on improved adaptors, high availability, XML functionality, more The middleware and data integration area has found new interest in recent weeks and months, as a host of vendors have focused efforts here.

The pervasiveness of and reliance on XML in mission-critical business apps requires non-XML documents to be reformatted for integration into more modern systems. Datawatch's VorteXML Designer is a platform for visually transforming text documents into XML, as well as mapping that XML to a Schema.

This article, written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, provides a high-level overview of W3C XML Schema. It describes the basic features of XML Schemas and provides specific examples of its functionality.

Many commercial applications provide undo and redo features, but implementing them in your own application can be difficult. This article shows you how to use XML to implement undo and redo features relatively easily. Using XML serializations, an application can store a series of data states and restore any of them.

Although database programmers usually focus on relational databases such as Access, Oracle, and SQL Server, object databases can also be useful, particularly for object-oriented architectures. This article shows how to use Visual Basic and XML to build a simple object database.

VB.NET provides a host of new features for working with XML, but you don't have to wait for VB.NET to get started. Microsoft's MSXML library can get you up and running now. This article explains how to get started using XML in Visual Basic 6. It provides several examples showing how you can use XML documents in VB 6 applications.

In the sample chapter, Devan Shepherd explores the concept of valid XML. Learn what validity means in XML, why it is important when exchanging data with others, how XML deals with data structures and document structures, and some common misconceptions about valid XML.

This little script will take an XML file and an XSL file and combine them to produce whatever output you want. The sample files I used contain some fake sample data and convert it to a basic HTML table, but you can use the same code to transform your data into whatever you want... just change the stylesheet.

Delphi Pro Bob Swart shows you how to convert any XML data packet or document (using XSL Transformation rules) to a browser-readable HTML format with a new component called the TXSLPageProducer.

Dialog quietly released an upgraded version of its professional search tool, DialogLink, to its customers in late May 2004. DialogLink 4.0 incorporates several new features and enhancements, including secure access (HTTPS), enhanced output options via new commands, Dialog eLinks, and improved reporting features with Microsoft Office.