Microsoft have released SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1, which integreates WSDL more thoroughly, and is also billed as a "fully Microsoft supported product."
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Microsoft SQL Server XML Technology Preview
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Compaq Announces Leading TPC Benchmarks for SQL Server 2000
Once again Compaq has shown the ability to take industry standard building blocks — servers, storage and interconnect technology — and deliver maximum performance at industry standard price points. The combination of ProLiant servers, Compaq storage systems, ServerNet II interconnect, and Microso
W3C XML Schema calls for on-line feedback
Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Dave Hollander have announced a set of HTML forms for schema authors and tools implementers to enter feedback for the W3C XML Schema Candidate Recommendation phase. Those interested now have until 29 December to submit their comments. The review period was due to end
Intel® NetStructure™ 7210 XML Accelerator
The Intel® NetStructure™ 7210 XML Accelerator is an Internet appliance that is placed between front-end routers and Web servers to help accelerate XML transactions and improve overall site performance. It offloads Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption/decryption and XML processing, handling up to 600
Professional XML Databases
In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data – whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing – you need
Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server
Questions, Answers, and Tips About SQL Server Learn about the paging file's importance, SQL Server 7.0 evaluation version's hazards, build numbers, DBCC DBREINDEX and fragmentation, mysterious indexes, permissions problems, and performance tuning.
UDDI: an XML Web Service
The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Service is now up and running at Microsoft, IBM, and Ariba. This is an online Web Service that you can use from your applications to dynamically discover other online services, all neatly packaged in a simple XML interface.
XHTML Basic moves to Recommendation
Modularization of XHTML may still be in Candidate Recommendation, but XHTML Basic, built on top of it, is now a W3C Recommendation.
Using Site Server Search to Index XML documents
By Paul Hammond – I recently spent some time discussing integration issues with a client who wanted to use XML to store articles for a magazine style website. His XML data was stored in physical XML files on the web server, with all of the articles for a "magazine edition" in a single XML fi