By Michael Meehan – Though the two electronic trading formats have been cast as mortal foes, the standards bodies behind them have agreed to create a set of shared business processes that could ultimately create standards harmony in the world of e-commerce.

Jason van Zyl proposed to accept the Helma XML-RPC implementation, already used by Turbine, into the Jakarta Apache project, provoking a strong pushback from xml-soap committer Sam Ruby.

by Bob Ducharme – Geared toward new users of XSLT, this guide is a basic tutorial of the concepts and documentation manipulation techniques necessary for the most common XSLT tasks. Featuring an XSLT cookbook, which provides task-oriented recipes for tackling issues such as converting elements to at

Announcing the 1.0 release of XML Query Engine, a Java-based search component for small to medium-sized collections of XML document, Howard Katz of Fatdog noted also that "early experimental support" for XQuery is included. XML Query Engine currently uses XQL as its query language; the engin

by Fabio Arjona Arciniegas, Fabio Arsiniegas – C++ XML treats, from a C++ exclusive point, all major standards, toolkits, and types of applications dealing with XML as a format for representing and exchanging data, as well as behavior. C++ explains the implementation of applications and reusable fra

By Mike Hogan – I often see articles talking about XML versus EDI. Many companies say that they are using, or planning to use XML because it is faster or cheaper, but they never really explain why this is. So I thought that I would give a quick rundown on the issues.