By Thor Olavsrud – The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Thursday advanced a major recommendation in the realm of Web services: XML Signature Syntax and Processing.The recommendation represents a cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for digital signatures, and is the foundation up

by Kip Hampton – In recent columns we have seen that SAX provides a modular way to generate and filter XML content. For those just learning how SAX works, though, the task of hooking up to the correct parser-generator-driver and building chains of filters can be tricky. More experienced SAX users ma

by Vikas Pandya – You are no longer limited to raster-based images. Finally, you can draw vector images dynamically inside a browser using the new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) technology.

by Leigh Dodds – Web services have been the major topic of conversation on XML-DEV this week following a discussion on types of messaging patterns and some wary initial reactions to WS-I, the "standards integrator" organization.

By Gowri Shankar – The major advantages of XML for interoperability of data are its extensibility and its ability to represent all forms of data in text format. XML proves its worth even when dealing with binary data. This article focuses on three ways to represent binary data in XML. The first meth

By Tischelle George – IBM, Motorola, and Web-browser company Opera have drafted a proposal for combining voiceXML, which allows navigation of Web pages through the use of voice commands, with xHTML, a mark-up language used to create Web pages.