By Tom Sullivan and Ed Scannell – …database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three — IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — are brandishing XML as the not-so secret weapon for making their databases faster and using it to anchor Web services.

by Bob DuCharme – In part 1 of this three-part series, we looked at how the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space instructions let you control extra whitespace from your source tree by element type. This month we'll look at how xsl:text can not only add whitespace where you want it, but also ma

by Michael Floyd – Stretch your Web site's functionality without going crazy—see how your server can dish up XML's benefits with minimum effort.

This article describes how to write an Apache SOAP 2.2 client for a Microsoft SOAP Toolkit-based Web service.

by Christopher A. Jones – What many developers realized after viewing the beta code, presentations, and samples is that Microsoft has indeed been focusing on the nature of these XML-based Web services and their utility, and they've created a series of services with an infrastructure fabric under

by Stuart J. Johnston – XML technologies are reshaping the world of enterprise content management. No longer implemented as monolithic systems applicable only in specialized fields, content management is now seen as a strategic opportunity for all sizes of companies and many types of applications. A