Microsoft XML Team's WebLog
Out of the Angle Brackets
"Standardizing on XML" is far from useless!
The war of words over Massachusetts' proposal to standardize on the OASIS Open Document Format...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 09/10/2005
XML 2005 Conference - deadlines are fast approaching
Microsoft is helping to sponsor the XML 2005 Conference (November 14-18, Atlanta GA) and we...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 09/08/2005
UPA in plain English (by Priya Lakshminarayanan)
Unique Particle Attribution or UPA as it is known among schema savvy XML geeks, is one among many...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 08/09/2005
XmlSchema and XmlSchemaSet
Stan writes about Walking XmlSchema and XmlSchemaSet objects
Author: XmlTeam Date: 08/06/2005
XML Projects
Now that Whidbey is almost out the door, we've started planning our next release. A number of...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 07/27/2005
GetElementsByTagName
It's been quiet on this blog as we get closer to Whidbey RTM. Meanwhile, Erik Saltwell - the dev...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 07/20/2005
XML Editor and Code Snippets
Just wrote up an entry about using code snippets in the XML Editor Stan Kitsis
Author: XmlTeam Date: 07/09/2005
XmlReader and XmlWriter articles by Alex Homer
Alex Homer wrote a very good article (https://www.15seconds.com/issue/050601.htm) on using XmlReader...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/23/2005
XML and Draconian Error Handling
I can just hear sound of the long-time XML users' mice clicking to get this horrible topic off the...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/17/2005
Anders Hejlsberg interview on support for XML and SQL in C#
Anders Hejlsberg, the MS Distinguished Engineer who has pioneered several important programming...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/10/2005
A lot interest around XSLT!!!!
Thanks everyone for the great feedback. There are a lot of interesting comments. Once I read through...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/08/2005
XSLT planning
We are planning what features /improvements need to go in the next release for XSLT. We are making...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/07/2005
Introducing myself
Hello!! I am Nithya Sampathkumar. I recently joined the Program Management team(shifted from dev to...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/07/2005
Why was Dynamic HTML a bust and "AJAX" a hit?
One of the eternal mysteries of the software industry for me is how formerly ignored or scorned...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 06/03/2005
Documents, Schemas, Objects: An Eternal [Golden?] Braid
I'm taking a break from the Day Job task of summarizing WebData XML's experiences with XML Schema...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 05/24/2005
Coding 4 fun
A few people here at Microsoft created a website for those who write code for fun. Check it out, it...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 05/23/2005
XInclude and schema validation
A lot of people are excited about XInclude and want to start using it in their projects. However,...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 05/11/2005
Visual Studio 2005 XML tools - video demo
MSDN Channel 9 has an interview with Ken Levy showing off the new XML tools in Visual Studio...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 05/04/2005
Webcast Tomorrow: Shankar Pal on Optimizing and Troubleshooting XML Applications at the Server
Just a reminder of this upcoming webcast. From the description: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduces...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 04/27/2005
bulkload and XSD schema constructs
I have seen quite a few newsgroup posts about SQLXML Bulkload where the users think the schema and...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 04/13/2005
Hello from a new blogger - Chandra
Hi folks, I am Chandrasekaran Kalyanaraman (Chandra is how I am called in the team here.). I have...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 04/13/2005
Xml Dev Center Updates
We have a new article today from Oleg Tkachenko, one of our MVP's, about indexing XML for faster...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 04/01/2005
Sql Server Xml Web Cast
Michael Rys will be doing an MSDN Webcast on April 5th about Managing XML Data on the Database with...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 03/15/2005
It Ain't Easy to be Simple
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 03/08/2005
CTP? Yeah you know me!
I know I know, corney, but it just popped into my head. As I'm sure you've read elsewhere, the...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 03/04/2005
MS Ignoring developer demand for REST tools?
The long running PR battle is heating up again between those who advocate the implementation of...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 02/15/2005
Happy Birthday to XML
One of my fellow co-workers just informed me that today is the 7th birthday of XML. Sure enough, 7...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 02/10/2005
The Past and Future of XML
There is a very interesting interview with Tim Bray, one of the original editors of the XML...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 02/02/2005
Announcements and Explanations about XQuery in .NET 2.0
Soumitra Sengupta and Charlie Heinemann have published an announcement of about the Status of XQuery...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/28/2005
MVP.Xml Library 1.0 Released
Our MVP's rock. In addition to the work they do supporting and promoting our products, as well as...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/25/2005
CSS vs XSL
Last Week Xml.com posted an article by HakonWium Lie and Michael Day called "Printing XML: Why CSS...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/24/2005
XML Attributes and XML Schema
Just wrote up an entry related to the issue that Daniel Cazzulino posted about issues between...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/21/2005
Srikanth ... Another Introduction
Following the trend, I would like to introduce myself. I joined Microsoft and the XML team recently...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/14/2005
Xml Team, Front and Center
As of this post, the XML Team Blog now takes over the blog on the front of the XML Developer Center...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 01/06/2005
Elements containing either text or other elements
OverviewA question pops up now and again in XML-related newsgroups about being able to define an...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 12/30/2004
Another XML Team introduction - Stan Kitsis
Hi everyone. I have recently joined the Microsoft XML team as a Program Manager focusing on XML...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 12/30/2004
Dave Remy, Introducing myself
Hi everyone, My name is Dave Remy (call me Rem or Remy), I am a new Program Manager for the...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 12/21/2004
XQuery support in SQL Server (soon) and .NET (maybe later)
This is Mike Champion at the controls of the XMLTeam Weblog this morning. I have introduced myself...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 12/17/2004
Welcome to the XML Team Blog!
Welcome folks, to the XML Team blog. This blog will be a place for various members of the XML team...
Author: XmlTeam Date: 12/15/2004