by John E. Simpson-The relationship between XML and HTML is often confusing for the Web developer coming to XML for the first time.

by Chris Stefano- Have you ever wished to debug an XSL transformation with the features of a debugger like those in Microsoft's Visual Basic IDE? The XSLDebugger is the answer to your debugging needs! The XSLDebugger now has syntax coloring!

by Yasser Shohoud – The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) promises nothing less than to change how you architect, implement, and deploy VB applications—today. At the same time, SOAP—as it stands now—has some significant limitations, not the least of which is performance. Understanding wha

by Kip Hampton-This article explores how Perl can be used to transfer data between XML and relational databases, and how XML can bridge two disparate databases.

by Kurt Cagle Is your company drowning in a sea of data? It's ironic that at this stage of the information age, data collection—once one of the costliest operations—has become largely a moot issue. Thirty years ago, the concept of having more than a few thousand records in one database

XSL Tester is an Open Source project from VBXML. It began its life as an ad hoc tool for quickly viewing the output of style sheet transformations while authoring XSL, because I got sick of switching back and forth between Notepad and IE (then choosing "View source" to see the actual transfo

Microsoft is replacing proprietary database protocols with the XML standard to better position its SQL Server database for next-generation Internet applications. The company is adding new interfaces based on XML to its OLE DB for OLAP protocol from next spring, taking effect when Microsoft relea

by Eric van der Vlist-In the first part of this series we examined the default content type behavior, modeled after data-oriented documents, where complex type elements are element and attribute only, and simple type elements are character data without attributes. The W3C XML Schema Definition La

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the completion of BizTalk Server 2000, its XML-enabled Business-to-Business (B2B) solution for companies of all sizes, and the final 2.0 release of the BizTalk Framework, which specifies how businesses should implement XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in th

E-commerce vendors are feeling the need for speed, hence the flood of new specs being introduced leading up to this week's XML2000 conference. Another week, another proposed XML specification. Such has been the momentum for the Extensible Markup Language recently, with new coalitions of vendors