By Cameron Laird – Countless organizations rely on UML (Unified Modeling Language) in the software development process. But software to manage UML itself has a well-earned reputation for being inflexible and difficult. This article describes how the Danish development house Ideogramic ApS extended X

by Leigh Dodds – This weeks XML-Deviant article looks at the problem of unique identifiers in XML documents, a loop-hole in XPointer, and proposals on XML-DEV to resolve the issue.

By Gareth Morgan – The growth of XML-based e-procurement platforms will enable more firms to extend online purchasing beyond limited areas such as maintenance, repair and operating contracts, said Eduardo Gonzalez of analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. "The evolving XML provides a common data interch

By George Franciscus – This article shows how to code a lightweight, transport-protocol-agnostic, XML-based message server that not only allows clients to place and pick up messages on queues, but also transform messages using XSL. Written in the Java language, eight code listings take you from open

by Bob DuCharme – XML considers four characters to be whitespace: the carriage return, the linefeed, the tab, and the spacebar space…Over the next few columns, we'll discuss how XML and XSLT treat whitespace to gain a better understanding of what can happen, and we'll look at some techniqu

In this continuing push to promote the adoption and usage of XML (extensible markup language), Software AG, the leading provider of native XML products for the electronic business marketplace, recently announced the launch of The XML Academy in the Philippines.

The Computer Science Institute for Data Communications Systems at the University of Siegen, Germany, has donated an implementation of Canonical XML and XML Signature to the Apache XML Project. The Java software, now available as "Apache XML Security Software 0.0.1" allows the creation

by Edd Dumbill – OASIS, an international consortium that develops XML-based industry specifications, including DocBook, ebXML, and RELAX NG, recently announced the formation of a new Technical Committee (TC) to pursue the development of UBL, the Universal Business Language.

By Gavin Clarke – A number of XML extensions planned for SQL Server 2000 are due in the coming months and will be bundled into the next version of Microsoft's database, positioning it squarely within the vendor's .Net framework.The as-yet-unspecified extensions will expose SQL Server

Adding to the already existing confusion surrounding MSXML versions, Microsoft released number four of what is now called Microsoft XML Core Services. While innovation is a good thing, the growing number of different levels of XML support on Microsoft platforms is worrysome. But the good news first,