Once an XML document is read into a source tree, where an XSLTstylesheet can get a hold of it, there’s a lot that the stylesheet cando with the source document’s attribute values. This month we’ll lookat how to convert attributes to result tree elements, how to grabattribute values for more general use, how to test [...]
Over two months have now passed since the W3C workshop on Binary Interchange. While the binary XML debate rages on in the XML community, the cautious observer will note that the discussion is shifting from a polarised and rather sterile [...]
Delivering the opening keynote at theIDEAlliance XML 2001 Conference in Orlando, Florida, James Clarkdescribed five challenges faced by the XML community. Just beforedelivering his speech, Clark was deservedly honored by theconference with the “XML Cup” for his long-standing contributionsto the world of XML.Though at the center of thedevelopment of XML 1.0 and XSLT, and much [...]
This month, I begin the fourth year of writing XML.com’s "XML Q&A" column. I’d liketo thank my editors here for continued support and indulgence; at no timeis that indulgence more evident than in August, when I tackle questionsthat no one has, to my knowledge, actually posed. In other words, everyAugust I answer questions I just [...]
This week the XML-Deviant looks at some recent communitycriticism over the XML support in Internet Explorer, which has been resolvedwith some promising feedback from Microsoft.SGML on the Web But Not in the BrowserIs it the community’s responsibility to pressure vendors to release conformant XML tools? Sound off in our forum.Post your commentsDespite its many and [...]
While many potential uses of XML result in fragments of XML text, notcomplete documents, XML parsers require complete documents to do theirjobs properly. I have been running an XML-based servlet to conduct online surveys. It records user responses by adding XML formatted datato a continuously growing cumulative file. I needed a way to analyzesurvey responses [...]
The computer industry, or at least the marketing arms of itslargest corporations, tends to float along on waves of hype, frombuzzword island to buzzword island, like an itchy junkie in search ofthe next fix and the next. Everyone in the industry, from pundits toCEOs to analysts to, especially, developers and engineers, decries thehype, the jittery [...]
Table of Contents• How Important Is It That We Get This Right?• And That’s the Good News• Who’s In Charge?• New Economy Players• What We Need• Follow The Money• Who Should Write Standards?I take full cognizance of the conflict inherent in my writing about "who should write standards?" I am, after all, co-chair of a technical committee in an ANSI-accredited SDO (XML [...]
The show floor at XMLDevCon2000 was focused on improving existing technology, rather than creatingentirely new concepts. A few old tools improved their interfaces and schemasupport, and some common older practices received new and friendlier faceswhich may expose them to more and larger-scaled projects.XML Spy 3.5Altova showed off a preview of XML Spy 3.5, itsWindows-based [...]
•Frameworks•Functions•VerticalsAt the XML ‘99 conference last year, Steve McVey of SterlingCommerce remarked, "XML is very flexible. Everyone can dotheir own thing, and, by golly, everyone is!" A survey ofcurrent and planned applications of XML for exchanging businessdata suggests McVey knows the subject well! The good news is that thenumber of business vocabularies using XML is [...]