By Bob Swart – XML documents contain content and definitions but little information about how you should display them (e.g., inside a browser). However, with an XML eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) template or transformation file, you can convert an XML document into a different (usually HTML-co

By David Mertz, Ph.D. – XML is a fairly simple format. It uses plain Unicode text rather than binary encoding, and all the structures are declared with predictable-looking tags. Nonetheless, there are still enough rules in the XML grammar that a carefully debugged parser is needed to process XML doc

By Ed Scannell – HOPING TO BUILD a better bridge for its users to walk between the Microsoft .Net and J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) worlds, Compaq Global Services struck a deal to implement Iona's Orbix E2A platform as part of a new enterprise integration practice.

By Amy Newman – Sun took a three-pronged approach in its enhancements for this latest version. The key new feature is the addition of iPlanet Application Framework, a new application framework for which Sun is claiming a potential ten-fold improvement in developer productivity for organizations that

by Kendall Grant Clark – It seems inevitable that the W3C will eventually offer a standards document which it calls XML 2.0. The post-XML 1.0 period has seen the development of too many attendant technologies, has too often heard pleas for refactoring from the development community, and too many XML

by Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald – Using a web service involves a sender and a receiver exchanging at least one XML message. The format of that message must be defined so that the sender can construct it and the receiver can process it. The format of a message includes the overall structure of the tr