My Articles about XML

How Would You Like That Served?
Our intrepid explorer of specifications, Didier Martin, investigates CC/PP, an RDF application for describing and exchanging device capabilities. [Jan. 31, 2001]

Staying in Synch
SyncML is a new standard aimed at keeping your data synchronized between devices both large and small. Didier Martin provides a whirlwind tour of this new technology. [Dec. 27, 2000]

What's So Great About XML?
Why bother using XML in a web publishing system? Didier Martin discusses the benefits of using XML as an intermediate stage in content delivery. [Nov. 8, 2000]

What's So Great About XML?
Why bother using XML in a web publishing system? Didier Martin discusses the benefits of using XML as an intermediate stage in content delivery. [Nov. 7, 2000]

Opening the E-Book
Use XML and save the planet! Didier Martin opens up the e-book specification and finds out that it's easy to save paper by creating electronic books. [Oct. 18, 2000]

Getting into i-Mode
Following on with his investigations into XML and wireless devices, Didier Martin explains i-Mode, the technology fueling the Japanese explosion in wireless Web access, and contrasts it with WAP. [Sep. 20, 2000]

Hello, Voice World
Ever written a "Hello World" program that talks back? Didier Martin has, and now he shares his experiences in order to show us around VoiceXML, a markup language for voice interactions. [Sep. 6, 2000]

Adapting Content for VoiceXML
In the second part of his "Write Once, Publish Everywhere" project, Didier Martin takes us through creating content for voice browsers. [Aug. 23, 2000]

Write Once, Publish Everywhere
Didier Martin leads us through building a portal accessible by HTML, WML, and VoiceXML. This week's article introduces the project and covers the login process. [Aug. 16, 2000]

Write Once, Publish Everywhere (II)
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A Question of Timing
The SMIL family of XML applications enables synchronized display of multimedia elements on the Web. Didier Martin explores SMIL, and the new synchronization features in Microsoft's IE5.5. [Aug. 2, 2000]

A Campfire Story
Sleeping under the stars, Didier Martin writes of today's HTTP and XML infrastructure, and the changes coming to wireless user interfaces. [Jul. 19, 2000]

More To WAP Than Meets The Eye
HDML is still a widespread language for marking up mobile phone content. Didier Martin introduces us to the differences between HDML and WML, and shows how HDML can be created from XML. [Jul. 5, 2000]

A Mobile Window on our Portal
As promised, we return to our HTML/WML portal project to demonstrate creating the WML side of the portal using XSLT, XLink, and XInclude. [May. 31, 2000]

Creating an HTML/WML Portal
With the explosion in alternative browsing devices, portals need to present more than one representation of their content. Didier Martin demonstrates how to build your own XML-driven portal. [May. 15, 2000]

DSSSL for XML: Why not?
Although a forerunner to CSS and XSLT, DSSSL can still be used today with XML to create RTF, HTML, and other formats. Didier Martin show us how. [May. 2, 2000]

Architectures for Styling
How should you style your XML? Client-side or server-side? CSS or XSLT? Didier Martin presents an exploration of architectures for styling your XML. [Apr. 19, 2000]

A Family Affair
XHTML, SVG, XSL, WML are all XML vocabularies for determining the final appearance of information on a display device. Didier Martin surveys this family of rendering languages, and considers their interaction with XSLT and the DOM. [Apr. 5, 2000]

Integration by Parts: XSLT, XLink and SVG
Didier Martin gives us a practical demonstration of the power of XSLT, XLink and SVG, bringing them together to generate interactive, illustrated, technical documentation. [Mar. 22, 2000]

What Place Has CSS in the XML World?
What practical use is CSS today to the XML developer? How does it integrate with XSLT? Didier Martin shows us where CSS fits in with the XML family of languages. [Mar. 8, 2000]

Component-Based Page Layouts
Combining XHTML, XSLT and XLink can be a powerful way to construct web page layouts. Adding a splash of SVG for good measure, Didier Martin challenges us to experiment. [Feb. 16, 2000]

A Class Act
In the first of our new "Style Matters" columns, Didier Martin shows how to preserve semantic information when using XSLT to generate HTML from XML. [Feb. 2, 2000]