When your XSLT processor is processing one node of your source tree, and you want to get something from another node, you can use an XPath expression and an xsl:value-of instruction. I'm going to hurry through the general structure of an XPath expression to get to the really useful stuff: using

ASP+ configuration information is stored in XML-based configuration files. Using built-in features of IIS 5.0 and IE 5.0 such as the FileSystemObject, the XML Document Object Model (DOM) and XML Data Islands, we can easily develop a rich tool for modifying and editing these configuration files. In t

XML is the eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML, intended to allow the creation and processing of application-specific markup languages. Python makes an excellent language for processing XML data. This document is the reference manual for the Python/XML package, containing several XML module

The big news on the datatypes front is the introduction of union dataypes, which join atomic types and list datatypes. This allows definition of types such as

The solution of a problem like case conversion can take many forms, especially when you use a language like XSLT, which gives you the flexibility to give many solutions; each one with a different degree of recursiveness. The solution presented in this document is a middle-ground solution, it's r

Boston, MA USA and London, England; October 3, 2000–OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, has expanded its technical process for the development of industrial XML standards. The Consortium recently expanded its bylaws to implement a new model of technical committee organization that, in essen

This article looks at those changes in the recent Pre-CR draft of W3C XML Schemas that will most effect developers and users. Requirements for data interchange with database systems have been important during W3C XML Schema's development. The recent changes also support markup languages and sche

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Complexity has been one criticism which RDF has had difficulty in shaking off. Both the RDF model, and its serialization syntax, have fallen foul of this issue at various points in its development. Efforts to produce a simpler serialization syntax have lead to several alternate proposals, including

Java Server Pages (JSP) technology uses XML-like tags and scriptlets (written in the Java programming language) to encapsulate the logic that generates the page's content. This example shows how to apply JSP technology to generate graphics described with the SVG syntax.