September 21, 1999.
Readers can forget about the boredom of white papers and sleepy tutorials.
Hosted by Walsh , who is a principal software engineer for Arbortext and XML standards guru, readers can look forward to rolling up their technical sleeves and learning how to take on XML projects the smart way, saving themselves pain and money by following a leader in the XML world. The first issue of Norm's column provides advice about XPath, an XML path language that will be an important building block for future specifications. Norm shows readers how XPath will provide a common foundation for solving the fundamental problem of locating elements, attributes, and other XML document nodes in a concise and interoperable way. This will allow stylesheets, links, and other developing web technologies to use a standard set of mechanisms to describe locations in an XML document, increasing interoperability and reducing user confusion. The column is especially valuable to those who are trying to build XML content today.