An excerpt from New Riders Inside XML by Steven Holzner. This chapter is all about using XML with Java to create standalone programs. In fact, I'll even create a few browsers in this chapter. Here, the programs we write will be based on the XML DOM, and I'll use the XML for Java (XML4J) pack

At the Open Source conference in Monterey last year, Sun announced their plans to release the current source code for Star Office, renamed OpenOffice. In October they followed up on their plans, releasing both the source code and binaries for OpenOffice build 605. One of the features added since Sta

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The W3C has acknowledged the submission of a note describing how an XML Signature may be included within a SOAP envelope header.

The RSSApplet developed in this column offers an easy way to display RSS news on your own Web site. With the configurator tool, introduced and explained in this installment it becomes even easier to get WebReference headlines onto your site:

Rick Jelliffe has posted a proposal for The Hook, an experimental terse schema language using a single element which allows checking the relatives and content of each XML node.

By Kendall Grant Clark. In the first part of this essay, I argued that the Semantic Web will be political because schemas, one of its foundational parts, are essentially political. I claimed schemas are political if they reflect the interests of the institutions that produce them, and they formalize

In this article Bob DuCharme tells us about how a variable in XSLT has more in common with a variable in algebra than with a variable in a typical programming language. It's a name that represents a value and, within a particular application of a template, it will never represent any other value

A thorough guide is imperative to success because you will need to know and understand the full scope of XML from day one in order to work with it successfully. With your time constraints and impossible project schedules, you need a comprehensive guide that fulfills your needs in one complete book.

This document explains some common mistakes in user agents due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications, and suggests remedies. It also suggests some "good behavior" where specifications themselves do not specify any particular behavior (e.g., in the face of error conditio