Microsoft released for preview the first set of specifications in the Global XML Web Services Architecture on routing, referral, security, and licensing that build on the baseline XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI specifications.

C++ XML by Fabio Arciniegas A. is a specialized guide intended to help intermediate to advanced C++ developers understand how to create "real world XML-aware C++ applications". While a wealth of guides to working with XML in Java seem to exist, C++ XML appears to be the only C++ speci

James Fell has released a new version, 1.1, of pocketSOAP, his SOAP implementation for Win32 and WinCE platforms. The new version adds many new features, including section 5 support, a completely pluggable [de]serialization model, headers, correct handling of the root attribute, single pass streamin

Roger Wolter gives a high-level overview of SOAP, both in terms of what it is and how you can use it. He also addresses WSDL, XML Web services, and security as they relate to SOAP.

by Dan Wahlin – Passing complex structures between distributed systems is not a simple process. See how XML-related classes in the .Net platform can be returned from Web services to allow clients to integrate received data into an application more easily.

By Clint Boulton – Boston's OASIS, an XML interoperability consortium, revealed that its members have formed a new group to define a language for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information.

Unquestionably the best XML event of the year 2000, XML World is coming to San Francisco for 2001. The one event that showcases all aspects of XML – and that gives a due emphasis to the business of XML – will be opening its doors at the Renaissance Parc Fifty Five Hotel from the 26th through 29th of

by Kendall Grant Clark – Every serious book, tutorial or discussion of XML for programmers mentions, even if only in passing, DOM and SAX, the two dominant APIs for handling XML. A general discussion of XML programming which failed to mention DOM and SAX would be as neglectful of its duty as would a

By Michael Qualls – This article is the third in a series of articles on manipulating XML data with ASP. Before proceding with this article, I recommend that you read Saving HTML Form Data to XML and Editing XML with XSL and ASP. The example in this article is very similar to the example on S

by Kip Hampton – The vast majority of Perl's XML modules are built on top of XML::Parser, Larry Wall and Clark Cooper's Perl interface to James Clark's expat parser. The expat-XML::Parser combination is not the only full-featured XML parser available in the Perl World. This month we'