Wrox have published Professional ebXML Foundations; IBM developerWorks have released two (1, 2) Python & XML tutorials, and Zvon have created a reference to Relax NG.
Other News
Cure Your XML Headaches with JDOM
by James W. Cooper – Rather beat your head against the wall than use org.w3c.dom classes to read and write XML files? JDOM can free you from the trappings of clunky DOM classes and make both reading and writing XML easy.
Goner is a Script Kiddie-inspired worm that disables firewalls, antivirus
By Robert Vamosi – Let there be no doubt that script kiddies–inexperienced malicious programmers–have taken up the once lowly skill of virus writing. Goner’s (w32.Goner.A@mm) pop-up displays look like a typical script kiddie Web-site defacement, complete with the typical script kiddie “greetz.” Be
Oracle eases integration with Small Business Suite
By Joris Evers – Using SMBXML (Small Business Extensible Markup Language), third-party applications can now be connected to Oracle Small Business Suite, eliminating the need for Small Business Suite users to manually transfer information, Oracle said in a statement.
Oracle announces portlets at OAUG conference
By Ephraim Schwartz – With fences mended between Oracle and the Oracle Applications User Group (OAUG), Cliff Godwin, senior vice president for applications technology at Oracle, was the unscheduled but much welcomed speaker during the morning session of the OAUG 2001 Fall Conference.
UBL: Yet another business language?
Starting a new thread on XML for business, let me introduce yet another XML vocabulary for business terms, the Universal Business Language (UBL). After several interest groups have pushed their definitions, through the respective implementation in their products, we ended up with a handful of partly
MinML-RPC, Sandstorm XML-RPC framework
Recent developments in the XML-RPC world include a new release of the small-footprint Java XML-RPC stack, MinML-RPC, and the continuing development of Sandstorm, a component system built on XML-RPC.
Working XML: Building a compiler for the SAX ContentHandler
This month Benoît Marchal launches a second Working XML project. The new project, called HC (short for Handler Compiler), will take some drudgery out of event-based XML parsing by automatically generating the SAX ContentHandler for a list of XPaths. This installment of the column describes the requi
SPACE EXPERT for Oracle
Space Expert for Oracle takes ease of use to a new level by quickly and easily identifying which objects would benefit the most from space management and/or a reorganization.
Procedure for changing foreign keys
By Sergey Gerasimov – This package will help you create a script to change foreign key options in Oracle.