(Shehan Peruma) The application reads the XML file and then associates the xml tags to variables which are then displayed in a message box.

(Alice Lipowicz) Homeland Security Department Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper’s announcement last month that his agency is collaborating with the Justice Department on a national data-sharing model may have had a familiar ring.

(Joe DeCarlo, Reginaldo Barosa, James Eberwein, Michael Virga and Henk van der Wijk) IBM customers are facing enormous pressures to do more with less. They are faced with having to choose from a proliferation of poorly integrated development tools. They are having to continue to leverage and extend

(Ronald Bourret) When native XML databases appeared on the heels of the XML 1.0 recommendation, most people weren’t sure what to make of them. Were they a replacement for relational databases or a return to hierarchical databases? No, said the vendors. They were designed to manage large numbers of X

(Oleg Tkachenko) This two-part article discusses various aspects of indexing XML data. The first part examines indexing of standalone XML documents, a native XML concept of IDs, XSLT keys, and introduces the IndexingXPathNavigator class, which enables indexing for any IXPathNavigable in-memory XML s

(Frank Leymann, Francisco Curbera, Donald Ferguson, Tony Storey and Sanjiva Weerawarana) This chapter provides a high-level overview and understanding of the structure and composition of a Web services platform. This platform represents the basic core of a new Web-based distributed computing platfor

(NetronProject) In a previous article a blueprint was described to implement a diagramming control. The control described therein was able to display simple flowcharts, to interactively edit the shapes and connections and was meant as an easy introduction to diagramming using C#. It was also pointed

(Jack Herrington) The XML story has two sides: data creators and data consumers. XSL typically falls on the consumer side of the equation, and all too often the format of the data is fixed well before a template gets to it. Take a list of books, for example. You might have an XML file with a list so

(Rich Salz) Regular readers of this column might notice that I’ve spent a lot of time on WSDL. There’s a reason for this: after XML and SOAP, I firmly believe that service description is the most important component of designing, building, and deploying heterogeneous web services.

(Paul Lipton and Igor Sedukhin) Mae West said, “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.” But, sometimes, when choosing between two equally appealing options, the best policy is to take both. WS-ResourceFramework and WS-Transfer, two new specifications f