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 The Library of Congress Comes Home
by Kendall Grant Clark
Embarking on his journey to organize our media collections, Kendall Clark explains how the Library of Congress classification system can be brought into our homes.
The Beauty of REST
by Jon Udell
Through his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a system.
Microcontent Management with Syncato
by Kimbro Staken
Syncato is an XML database backed content management system. Use it to store and manage media such as music playlists or photos as well as your weblog content.
BumbleBee, the XQuery Test Harness
by Jason Hunter
Jason Hunter introduces a testing framework for XQuery, which lets you write tests for your own queries and verify query engine interoperability.
XBRL: The Language of Finance and Accounting
by Dale Waldt
In the first of our new series reviewing industry XML standards, Dale Waldt takes a look at the what, where, who, and how of XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language.
XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools, Part 1
by Uche Ogbuji
Uche Ogbuji provides a hands-on introduction to Python's facilities for processing XML namespaces.
From Wiki to XML, through SGML
by Rick Jelliffe
XML made SGML obsolete, right? Not quite! Rick Jelliffe uses SGML to translate wiki text into XML.
Semantic Web Interest Group
by Kendall Grant Clark
Reporting from the first W3C Semantic Web Interest Group meeting in Cannes, France, Kendall Clark describes the wealth of activity in the semantic web world.
Using XML Catalogs with JAXP
by Tom White
XML Catalogs offer a way to manage local copies of public DTDs, schemas, or any XML resource that exists outside of the referring XML instance document. Find out how to use them in Java with JAXP.
Getting Reacquainted with dbXML 2.0
by Tom Bradford
The second version of dbXML is much improved over its predecessor, offering transactions, security features, new APIs and query mechanisms. Tom Bradford gives us an update.
Community Developments
by Kendall Grant Clark
After its long focus on the W3C TAG, the XML-Deviant returns its gaze to the XML developer world, taking in developments in RDDL and the new "genx" project.
 Protocol Design: The Need for Speed
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Part three of our series on designing protocols looks at how network transfer speed can be maximized.
Little Back Corners
by John E. Simpson
In this month's XML Q&A; column John E. Simpson examines some of the back corners of XPath processor namespace handling.
Geeks and the Dijalog Lifestyle
by Kendall Grant Clark
Much as we'd like, our personal media collections will never be purely digital. Kendall Clark embarks on a new column dedicated to the application of geek know-how to managing the hybrid analog and digital media collections that we own.
Television Listings and XMLTV
by Kyle Downey
On a quest to build a DIY personal video recorder, Kyle Downey gets to grips with XMLTV, a toolkit for screen-scraping TV listings data into XML.
Lightweight XML Search Servers, Part 2
by Jon Udell
Jon Udell enhances his lightweight XML search server by adding database backed storage, using the Berkeley DB XML database, and retrieving and indexing all of the weblogs he reads.
Googling for XML
by Bob DuCharme
Google's index includes well over a million XML files. Bob DuCharme shows some strategies for using Google to find the XML, RSS and RDF files that you want.
Combining RELAX NG and Schematron
by Eddie Robertsson
Eddie Robertsson explains how RELAX NG and Schematron can be mixed in a single schema to get the combined validation power of both languages.
Reviewing Web Architecture: Conclusions
by Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark concludes his review of the W3C TAG's Architecture of the World Wide Web document, covering good practice in the separation of form from content and the use of XML vocabularies.
Introducing PyRXP
by Uche Ogbuji
In Uche Ogbuji's latest Python and XML column he examines PyRXP, discovering that it's not a conformant XML parser. He recommends the use of the PyRXPU variant instead.
An Introduction to FOAF
by Leigh Dodds
Friend-of-a-friend, FOAF, is an RDF vocabulary for machine-readable homepages. It enables the expression of decentralized social networks akin to the centralized ones seen in Friendster and Orkut. Leigh Dodds provides an introduction to FOAF and its use.
Opening Open Formats with XSLT
by Bob DuCharme
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he finds that four-year old XSLT 1.0 is solving more and more problems as more data becomes available in XML.
Web Architecture Review: Representation
by Kendall Grant Clark
Kendall Clark continues his look at the W3C Technical Architecture Group's "Architecture of the World Wide Web." This time he examines the third of the key architectural principles set forth in this document: data formats.
Atom API Update
by Joe Gregorio
The grassroots technology for weblog authoring, Atom, is undergoing rapid development. This article reviews the eighth revision of the specification for the Atom API.
The Ox Documentation Tool
by Michael Fitzgerald
Ox is a simple documentation tool for people who regularly work at the shell or command-prompt level: a Java program that accepts a keyword or term as input and then returns documentation for that term.
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