Parts of the XML community always grumble that XML is difficult to understand and process. XML is fundamentally complex for various historical reasons, and people proposed simplified versions for more than a decade. JSON and HTML5 threaten some of the most basic XML tenets. MicroXML -- a simplification of XML that is compatible with earlier versions -- emerged from discussions of these issues. MicroXML is now under the guidance of a W3C community group, and several basic implementations are already available for the draft specification. In this first article of a two-part series, learn from one of the MicroXML Community Group co-chairs about MicroXML and its technical differences from the XML 1.x core standards.

MicroXML is a simplification of XML that is compatible with earlier versions. Part 1 of this two-article series covers the basic principles of MicroXML. MicroXML is designed with a straightforward grammar that can be processed with many modern general-purpose parsing tools. James Clark, who led the original push for MicroXML, is among those thinkers who developed a parser for the community specification. Learn how to use Clark's JavaScript MicroXML parser to experiment with the format.

Every browser has its fans, detractors, advantages, and disadvantages. One thing they all have in common is that people increasingly spend more time using them. This series examines how to build the same basic extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. You'll learn what it is like to extend each browser, how hard or easy it is to perform some common tasks, and how to distribute your extension In this article, you build an extension for Chrome.

Welcome, authors! This article shows how to prepare technical articles, tutorials, and knowledge paths for publication on the developerWorks site. The steps are simple. You download our XML-based template for articles or for tutorials, fill in the template using any validating XML editor or your preferred Microsoft Windows or Linux text editor, check it to ensure it follows the tagging structure as defined in the developerWorks schema, and preview your article or tutorial. Tips for composing your content and submitting it to the developerWorks staff are also included.

Android is a modern, open source operating system and SDK for mobile devices. With it you can create powerful mobile applications. This becomes even more attractive when your applications can access Web services, which means you need to speak the language of the Web: XML. In this article, you will see different options for working with XML on Android and how to use them to build your own Android applications.

Instagram is a popular photo-sharing service that enables users to take photos with their smartphone and share them with others through the Web. Application developers can search for and retrieve these photos, together with their associated comments and likes, through the Instagram REST API. This two-part article introduces the Instagram API and illustrates how it can be used with PHP to leverage Instagram's rich repository of user-generated content and to create innovative web applications.

Instagram is a popular photo-sharing service that enables users to take photos with their smartphone and share them with others through the Web. Application developers can search and retrieve these photos, together with their associated comments and likes, through the Instagram REST API. This two-part article introduces the Instagram API and illustrates how it can be used with PHP to leverage Instagram's rich repository of user-generated content and create innovative web applications.

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment integration mechanism widely used in Europe to handle standard payment messages. Each SEPA document can contain up to 100,000 credit transfer transactions and must be processed accurately in a short period of time. This article outlines the author's experience in performing a benchmark for a large European corporate and investment bank using DB2 for z/OS pureXML for SEPA (ISO 20022). Learn how the team resolves obstacles and eventually achieves their performance goal.

Frankfurt TOC presenters Anna von Veh, a consultant at Say Books, and Mike McNamara, managing director at Araman Consulting Ltd & Outsell-Gilbane UK Affiliate, discuss xml workflows, the (sorry) state of ebook design, and how books and the web will evolve.