by Kurt Cagle Is your company drowning in a sea of data? It's ironic that at this stage of the information age, data collection—once one of the costliest operations—has become largely a moot issue. Thirty years ago, the concept of having more than a few thousand records in one database

by Kip Hampton-This article explores how Perl can be used to transfer data between XML and relational databases, and how XML can bridge two disparate databases.

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the completion of BizTalk Server 2000, its XML-enabled Business-to-Business (B2B) solution for companies of all sizes, and the final 2.0 release of the BizTalk Framework, which specifies how businesses should implement XML and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in th

by Eric van der Vlist-In the first part of this series we examined the default content type behavior, modeled after data-oriented documents, where complex type elements are element and attribute only, and simple type elements are character data without attributes. The W3C XML Schema Definition La

Microsoft is replacing proprietary database protocols with the XML standard to better position its SQL Server database for next-generation Internet applications. The company is adding new interfaces based on XML to its OLE DB for OLAP protocol from next spring, taking effect when Microsoft relea

Topicmaps.org has delivered a stable set of core deliverables, along with a draft of XML Topic Maps 1.0 and the XML Topic Maps Processing Model.

Information and business go hand in hand. Successful businesses know how to leverage the power of their information, and Net-savvy corporations have done just that. They have set up intranets, extranets, and corporate Web sites, all in an effort to help employees and customers tap into the company&#

E-commerce vendors are feeling the need for speed, hence the flood of new specs being introduced leading up to this week's XML2000 conference. Another week, another proposed XML specification. Such has been the momentum for the Extensible Markup Language recently, with new coalitions of vendors