Because of HTML5's momentum, it is now a technology that every XML developer has to deal with. Fortunately HTML5 supports a proper XML serialization. Learn about the XML form of HTML5 including some key differences from older XHTML conventions and learn how to practically apply this vocabulary in modern web browsers.

This article examines three different common anti-patterns, or "worst practices" in XML that can give you a big headache when coding for Web services and SOA. These common errors are often encountered and can really make your life more complicated than it needs to be. These "How to fix it" solutions can definitely cut your misery short.

XUL is a tried and true application framework. In fact, the recently released Firefox 3.0 is not only built using XUL, but provides a XUL runtime environment that enables any Firefox user to run other XUL applications. In this tutorial, you start to program in XUL and learn about some tools to help you develop XUL apps. Build a XUL-based blog editor as you enhance your Web development skills to build desktop apps with XUL.

When you move into an XML-based publishing environment, the right approach can save time and even make new publishing paradigms possible if you properly design the structure. This article describes how you can convert documents designed for print publishing to structured documents. Discover the logical musts to ensure that publishing is achievable following a transition to XML.

Learn how to develop an application for a real estate brokerage to display all available apartment listings as clickable Placemarks on Google Maps. To turn street addresses into their geographical coordinates for storage in the database, you will call the Google Geocoder Web service from PHP. You will then produce XML data from MySQL using stored procedures, and an XSLT stylesheet to transform the data into a KML overlay to view in Google Maps and Google Earth.