by Eric van der Vlist-XML 2000 dedicated the first afternoon of its "XML Leading Edge" track to W3C XML Schema. The sessions highlighted XML Schema's application for validating documents, showed its extensibility, and presented applications that separate logic and presentation from the s

This is a SOAP client COM component for the Windows family, originally targeted at PocketPC (hence the name), there is also a Wintel version that works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000. The package includes a HTTP client for making HTTP based SOAP requests, however the transport is separate from the mai

By Ken Cox-By design, the World Wide Web crosses international boundaries and supports multiple languages. To make your site or intranet application available to the largest audience, your pages need to be localized. Localization is the process of translating content such as text and graphics into o

by Yasser Shohoud-Most programmers have probably used the Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate XML documents. With DOM, you can do pretty much anything you want with the XML document, so why use another API? The answer: performance. The Simple API for XML (SAX) is an industry-standard API inten

by Edd Dumbill-On the Monday of XML 2000, many developers attended the XML Developers' Special Interest Day. Chaired by Jon Bosak, this track was composed of "late breaking" XML developments — speakers submitted proposals only six weeks before the start of the conference. This enabled s

Imagine a place where you are guaranteed to have a collection of the most popular XML Processing tools, with their latest version always installed correctly. Imagine that you'd be able to access these tools from everywhere — from your home PC, from work, from the local Internet cafe, or eve