I know I know, corney, but it just popped into my head. As I'm sure you've read elsewhere, the February CTP is out. I just wanted to give an updated of what you can expect from SqlXml: SQLNCLI support - This should be pretty self-explanitory, you can...

The long running PR battle is heating up again between those who advocate the implementation of service architectures [1] "RESTfully" using XML transferred via HTTP, vs those who work with SOAP, WSDL, and the specs built on them known as "WS-*". The item...

One of my fellow co-workers just informed me that today is the 7th birthday of XML. Sure enough, 7 years ago today is the date on the first XML 1.0 Specification . Ah, and how far we've all come since then. 7 years ago I was most of the way through my...

There is a very interesting interview with Tim Bray, one of the original editors of the XML specification, in the February 2005 ACM Queue (it's only in the print version, not online, as of this writing). Some of the more intriguing bits ... [Responding...

Soumitra Sengupta and Charlie Heinemann have published an announcement of about the Status of XQuery in the .NET Framework 2.0 . Michael Rys has pointed to this article and provided some other links, and I have gone into more detail about this in my weblog...

Our MVP's rock. In addition to the work they do supporting and promoting our products, as well as providing feedback to us on what we're doing, they've been implementing a set of additional XML-centric components for the .Net Framework, collectivly called...

Last Week Xml.com posted an article by HakonWium Lie and Michael Day called "Printing XML: Why CSS is Better than XSL" . It was a pretty good read on why, for printing and web page rendering purposes, CSS is better than XSLT. The authors are careful to...

Just wrote up an entry related to the issue that Daniel Cazzulino posted about issues between XInclude and XML Schema . In case you are interested ... XML Attributes and XML Schema . rem

Following the trend, I would like to introduce myself. I joined Microsoft and the XML team recently as a PM. I have now come to own the XmlReader, the native Infoset Reader, the XmlWriter and the Xml Binary Reader (both native and managed). Prior to coming...

As of this post, the XML Team Blog now takes over the blog on the front of the XML Developer Center on MSDN. I'm looking forward to more frequent and varied posts as more member of the XML Team contribute to this effort. Please don't stop sending feedback...

Overview A question pops up now and again in XML-related newsgroups about being able to define an element that could contain either text or other elements. Basically, people want to say <myelement> Some text </myelement> Or <myelement>...

Hi everyone. I have recently joined the Microsoft XML team as a Program Manager focusing on XML Tools. As such, I am open to all feedback you might have regarding the new XML Editor (VS 2005) and any other XML tools that you would like to see in the future...

Hi everyone, My name is Dave Remy (call me Rem or Remy), I am a new Program Manager for the Microsoft XML team working with Soumitra and others that will be posting on this blog. I wrote up a too long version of my bio on my nascent blog . Here is the...

Hello: This is Soumitra. Thanks to Irwin for setting this up for the entire team. This will be the main forum where we will communicate with our customers, MVP's, community influencers and anybody who cares about XML . But let me first introduce myself...

This is Mike Champion at the controls of the XMLTeam Weblog this morning. I have introduced myself on my own MSDN weblog, if you want to know my background and role on the team. One of the things that people are a bit confused about is the role of XQuery...

Welcome folks, to the XML Team blog. This blog will be a place for various members of the XML team at Microsoft to share their thoughts on XML and related technologies. The XML Team is responsible for core XML technologies at Microsoft including: System...