by Kendall Grant Clark – Perhaps, like journalists, the most socially beneficial thing the independent XML developer community can do is to be independent. In addition to the technology they build, independent developers serve a socially important function by telling the truth and exposing lies.<br>

By Kurt Cagle – Much of the focus of XSLT has been on its "stylesheet" capabilities — the ability to convert XML into some form of displayed HTML. However, XSLT is a functional language, one that takes an XML "state" and converts it into a different XML state — in essence, a form o

by Kimbro Staken – The need to process and store XML has spawned several new types of software tool, one of which is the "native XML database." This article explains the principles behind such databases.

Most data is still created and consumed by humans, and XML is no exception. Adoption of XML therefore depends largely on the availability of tools for reading, writing, and editing XML data.

The W3C has published XML Information Set as a recommendation, providing "a set of definitions for use in other specifications that need to refer to the information in an XML document."

A posting from Chuck Allen (Director, HR-XML Consortium, Inc.) announces the publication of six (6) new approved specifications from the HR-XML Consortium. The 128-member HR-XML Consortium held its quarterly meeting on October 15-16, 2001 at London's Copthorne Tara Hotel, ratifying the new draft

By Wylie Wong and Mike Ricciuti – Microsoft on Tuesday took a stab at bolstering the Web-based tools and specifications needed to make Web services built using its .Net tools more secure, and more attractive to businesses. Microsoft also announced several new tools and distributed near-final

By MICHAEL MEEHAN – As technical standards bodies attempt to harmonize data-sharing specifications in the Balkanized world of XML, an aerospace industry group is adopting a new approach that converts existing electronic data interchange (EDI) data formats and definitions into XML.