You've probably heard the propaganda by now: XML blesses you with a way to separate content from presentation. Separation in turn yields productive gains over HTML and other data formats used to manage content. This tutorial, written primarily for content authors, technical writers, Web designers, and other nonprogrammers, is the first in a short series that aims to introduce you to the basics of XSLT and help you get started using it to transform XML documents into HTML. The focus is not on data-centric documents but on such narrative-centric documents as reference manuals, help files, essays, stories, instructions, books, and magazine articles.

This tutorial describes how XML transformations are affected in the Oracle XML DB, by peering into the concepts, design, and implementation aspects that OTN developers applied to the Oracle XML DB Content Management System (CMSXDB). OTN developers used Oracle9i JDeveloper and the features within Oracle XML DB to build the application.

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. The development of XML started somewhere around the 1996 timeframe. In 1998, the W3C made it a official standard. XML's derived directly from SGML, another document language from the 80's (standardized in 1986).

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. The development of XML started somewhere around the 1996 timeframe. In 1998, the W3C made it a official standard. XML's derived directly from SGML, another document language from the 80's (standardized in 1986).

In this report we want to provide some insight in what XML is and what it can do for you. We go into details on what XML is, and on how to handle XML. In the second part of this document we describe a number of applications of XML in finance, trade and multimedia. Also, we discuss generic frameworks to support XML and XML document exchange.

This paper is an overview of the XML Mediator technology. It presents information that will help you understanding the main objectives, functionalities and architectures. The topics in this paper include:

This concise tutorial describes a technique for transforming data formatted in comma-delimited files (CDF) into XML data.

This tutorial on developing browser-agnostic XML was originally an XMLDEVCON2000 presentation. The presentation covers: the history of XML and the browser wars, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Opera, specifics on various incompatibilities, a cross-browser compatible subset of XML 1.0 and Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 (CSS1), creating hybrid documents, server-side solutions, eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), XML Linking Language (XLink) and eXstensible Style Language (XSL).

As for the output produced by write_xml_cdata_log_entry, the characters seem properly escaped, but there may still be a problem. If this output is to stand alone as an XML document, it's not be well-formed. The problem is that there is no XML declaration, so the character encoding is assumed by XML processors to be UTF-8. But the degree symbol at the end of the string makes it illegal UTF-8; an XML parser would signal an error. This is one of the most common symptoms of bad XML I have seen: documents encoded in ISO-8859-1 or some other encoding which are not marked as such in an XML declaration.

This is a tutorial on an alternative method to both Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Server Pages (JSP) for serving dynamic HTML. The method employs an XML Compiler (XMLC), an object-oriented mechanism for creating dynamic content from static HTML and XML documents.

This tutorial teaches a strategy and techniques for implementing Active Sever Pages (ASP) and XML to create web pages that automatically localize to several target native languages.

XML gives Visual Basic coders developing for the Web a way to create simple property-based classes more easily, combined with a way to persist them, that is not possible with Visual Basic alone. In this tutorial a class is created (CXMLObj) that wraps an XMLDOM or DOMDocument object with a generic and automatic way to create the required procedures.

A tutorial on using XML with Perl and other scripting languages.

This tutorial, written by Jato developer Andy Krumel, demonstrates how to convert XML data into a Swing interface. Topics include how to employ Jato expressions and create conditional objects using the conditional tags and dynamic debugging statements of Jato's new debugger.

This tutorial shows how to bind fields on a Web page directly to an XML data source included in the page as a data island, and persist an ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) recordset to a stream as XML.

This tutorial details use of the Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX) XML data exchange protocol with PHP. The author illustrates application of PHP's built-in WDDX support with an example that parses and exchanges XML data with an online database.

Microsoft OLE DB does not provide a service for persistence of rowsets to XML, or loading of rowsets from an XML file object. This tutorial shows how to use ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to persist an OLE DB rowset to an XML file, and to load OLE DB rowsets from an XML file.

This tutorial follows a real world use of XML and XSL for dynamically generated pages. The examples detail how XML, a Java servlet, an Enterprise Javabean and an XSL style sheet interact to handle a request for product information, query a database for the answer to the request, and create HTML output to display the answer. Includes code listings.

This tutorial shows site developers how to create an XML "super cookie" that allows a list of site favorites to be added to the user's browser. The favorites will persist and be available whenever the user returns to the site. Requires Internet Explorer 5.

This is the second installment of a two part tutorial on parsing XML in Perl. It describes the function of Document Type Declarations (DTDs) and how to use them to enforce structure in your Perl XML parsing code, and gives a more detailed look at the Document Object Model (DOM) and tree-based parsing (including annotated sample code).