XML has become the almost universally supported way of exchanging documents and data across applications and platforms. Microsoft was a pioneer in XML development and takes pride in the quality, performance, and standards conformance of our XML technologies. We have a family of XML technologies that allows users with differing requirements to do what they need to do, as simply and efficiently as possible.
Congratulations XML on 10 years! The W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Recommendation was initially published on February 10, 1998.
Friends, Xml Users, Developers: Below you'll find excerpts from the XML team blog. Feel free to drop us a line with comments.
XML Tools and Technology Survey The Data Programmability XML Tools team is conducting a survey focused on XML technology and tools usage over the coming weeks.  The survey t more
New XSD Functionality in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta 1 We’re thrilled to announce that today the new XML Schema Explorer is included in the Orcas SP1 Beta release for Visual Studio 2008. We previ more
SQLXML 4.0 Not Installed in SQL Server 2008 Prior to SQL Server 2008, SQLXML 4.0 was released with SQL Server and was installed by all SQL Server editions, except in SQL Server Express. Beginnin more
XML Tools in Visual Studio 2008 CoDe Magazine published an article on XML Tools. It covers a wide range of topics: Editing XML files, Schema cache and catalogs, Perfor more
Archive of XML Blog Postings
XSLT - Select NodeSet only when a child XML tag contains a specific value Hi all,How do I select a group of NodeSets but only when one of the child XML tags value within each nodeset is equal to a specific value? I have the more
XSLT file to style a tabbed page (multiple pages) Hi all, I have a requirement to generate a report from an XML file where the report must be spread across many pages. At the moment I have picked up a more
XmlWriter formatting breaks? Hi thereI think I may have found a problem with XmlWriter, or I am not using it right.In a nutshell, if I use XmlWriter's various Write statements lik more
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource - XML File Hi Gurus, I was reading from a xml doc using Visual basic. I was doing it fine until i got this error message in my browser, when i was trying to more