(Bruce Sharpe) Today’s business environment has borne a new breed of corporate executive: the content owner.

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has approved Version 2.0 of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) as an OASIS Standard. The specification was produced by members of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee.

(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) In this second article in a series, the basics in volved in XML to SQL 2000 Server over HTTP are explained.

(Anand Narayanaswamy) Nearly 95 percent of .NET applications use XML for various tasks. A main usage for Web developers is combining XML with HTML to display information on Web pages, which relieves them from having to spend a long time editing the content on their Web pages. A single change to an X

(Micah Dubinko) The xml-dev list is famously filled with disagreements; often long-running, occasionally contentious permathreads. A casual glance might reveal someone cursing out namespaces, debating strong versus loose coupling, or passionately arguing for changes to the core of XML. And that’s ju

In February 2005 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) launched a new Encoding Interoperability Experiment relating to the use of the Geography Markup Language in JP2 (JPEG 2000) image files. The goal is to support a standardized mechanism for inclusion of geo-referencing information as XML-encoded m

(Uche Ogbuji) The running theme of the column has been semantic transparency: the ability to correctly interpret the contents of XML documents. Semantic transparency might be the most important aspect of XML modeling. This is first in a series of articles that review the many different approaches to

(Simon St. Laurent) I’ve spent a lot of time this week rethinking Microsoft Office 2003’s XML capabilities and figuring out how I feel about them a year after writing a book on them.

(Simon Guest) This article shows Interoperability based on OASIS WS-Security 1.0 between Microsoft WSE 2.0 and Systinet Server for Java 5.0. The walkthroughs in this article will take you through all you need to know to configure the two environments for securely signing and encrypting SOAP requests

(Jack Herrington) A common problem with XSLT is that it takes only a single XML file as input. You can use a cross-platform Java tool to create an XML directory listing, then use XSLT to process every file in the directory from that listing. This tip covers installation and use of such a tool, a