C.J. Date , one of the most influential names in the relational database world, had some harsh words about XML's encroachment into the world of relational databases in a recent article entitled Date defends relational model that appeared on SearchDatabases...

XML.com recently ran an article entitled Document-Centric .NET , that highlights the various technologies for working with XML that exist in the .NET Framework. The article provides a good high level overview of the various options you have for processing...

The next version of SQL Server will have a significant amount of functionality related to storing, querying and extracting XML from the database. To accompany the information being imparted at TechEd 2004 , myself and rest of the folks behind the XML...

A few months ago Mark Fussell wrote an article entitled What's New in System.Xml for Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Release . Mark Ihimoyan has a followup series of blog posts which mentions which of the new features of System.Xml mentioned...

The Microsoft Pattern and Practices folks have produced an excellent guide to Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability with a chapter on Improving XML Performance . If you build .NET Framework applications that utilize XML then you owe it...

The XML team has recently started getting questions about our position on XQuery 1.0 , XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 . Yesterday my boss, Mark Fussell, posted about why we have decided to implement XQuery 1.0 but not XSLT 2.0 in the next version of the .NET...

The folks behind the InfoPath team blog have posted a short series on how to programmatically modify InfoPath form templates. The example in the series shows how to change the URL of a XML Web Service end point used by the InfoPath form using a script...

I recently submitted the Design Guidelines for Exposing XML Data as part of the WinFX design guidelines. You can read the guidelines in Krzysztof Cwalina's weblog. These are also the application guidelines that developers working with XML should follow...

I recently stumbled on blog posting by Phil Ringnalda called a little chip in the concept where he notes Still, I was a bit surprised when Xiven linked to a post to the validator mailing list , pointing out that the utterly wrong HTML <a href...