By Cameron Laird – XML-oriented applications vary enormously in performance. This article, the second in a series on XML persistence, presents basic information you should know about XML parsing, including several principles for measuring XML parsing performance that are important for any XML develo

The HTML Working Group has published an initial Working Draft of HLink: Link Recognition for the XHTML Family, offering an answer to looming questions about the role of linking in XHTML.

by Randy Holloway – The XslTransform class enables you to leverage XML data in .NET apps by implementing XSLT transformations. You can find XslTransform in the System.Xml.Xsl namespace.

Documenting one’s deeds is usually not high priority for developers, and Web developers are no exception. Alas, once you have to look again at stuff you’ve done weeks or months ago, the usefulness of documentation becomes apparent.

by Rick Jelliffe – The new European currency, the euro, has a symbol € in Unicode 3.2 as character U+20AC. How can we use it with XML?There are three ways of representing the euro in XML:

The market for XML server software will continue to grow, reaching $3.5 billion by 2006, according to researcher IDC. A steady demand for new IT integration technologies will drive this growth, IDC said. That demand accounts for a growth rate for XML servers of more than 164 percent from 2000 to

By Charles Cooper – Jim Allchin is not buying the argument that there’s any confusion about Microsoft’s message on Web services. If anything, he says, it’s just the opposite.

by Kendall Grant Clark – In last week’s column I discussed the APW’s introduction and some general issues of terminology, especially the confusion, as I see it, of principle with practice. In this week’s column, I examine APW Section 2, Identifiers and Resources.

By Uche Ogbuji – Internationalization support is one of XML’s key strengths. Unfortunately, too few XML formats provide mechanisms for localizing content. This tip shows you how to develop localized XML formats.

by Shane McCarron – From the Abstraction – "The XML Events module defined in this specification provides XML languages with the ability to uniformly integrate event listeners and associated event handlers with Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 event interfaces [DOM2] [p.17] . The result is to prov