(Luc Moreau, Yong Zhao, Ian Foster, Jens Voeckler and Michael Wilde) We are concerned with the following problem: How do we allow a community of users to access and process diverse data stored in many different formats? Standard data formats and data access APIs can help but are not general solution

(Earle Castledine) Every nerd loves the XMLHttpRequest. It supplies the functionality of which Web programmers’ dreams are made. Web applications start behaving like desktop applications. Things work as they’re “supposed to,” freeing the Mum-and-Dad end users from needing to know anything about serv

(Lewis R Cunningham) I’ve written some in the past about Oracle and XML. A couple of days ago, some coworkers had a requirement and I created a simple example to show them one possible solution. I thought I would share that here.

(Alex Homer) Ever since the mid 90’s, as XML has evolved to become the optimum way to share, transport and persist data, developers have sought efficient ways to store, manipulate and generally take advantage of its capabilities. Increasingly fast and easy-to-use XML parsers have been developed,

(Venus Patel) The goal of this article is to explain the process of: –Creating web services. –Consuming web services. –Using Web Services Discovery tool (DISCO). –Creating and understanding Web Services Description Language (WSDL) documents. –A regular expression for accepting positi

(Graham King) XML has two main advantages: first, it offers a standard way of structuring data, and, second, we can specify the vocabulary the data uses. We can define the vocabulary (what elements and attributes an XML document can use) using either a document type definition (DTD) or the XML Schem

(Barbara Darrow) The IT giant is offering yet another batch of technology to the open-source world in hope of propagating widespread text search and analytics.

(Mike Gunderloy) As you undoubtedly know, XML has become ubiquitous as a data storage and transmission format. It’s possible to build an entire computing infrastructure on top of XML files, and many development shops have done just that. XML-aware tools are an important part of the picture, and

(Thomas Siepe) Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to display XML-data to your users and/or make it editable? To achieve this, one might first think of the (in .NET 1.0 unmanaged) Browser COM plug-in. It does the display part quite well, although the unnerving JavaScript-blocker on Wi

(Colleen Frye) Industry cooperation around security in a Web services world has taken several steps forward recently with the announcement that three more specifications in the IBM/Microsoft Web Services (WS-*) Security Roadmap are being submitted to OASIS in September, and a successful interoperabi