(J. David Eisenberg) XSLT has been the main XML technology for transformations for some time now, but it’s not the only player in the game. Although XQuery is designed for retrieving and interpreting information, it is also, according to the specification, “flexible enough to query a broad spectrum

(Clint Boulton) IBM has improved the ability of its content management software to handle XML-based documents, broadening the scope of data types the products can capture, manage and search.

(Jimmy Zhang) As the lingua franca of the Internet, XML has become an indispensable part of IT infrastructure. As more web services applications start to exchange XML messages over the network, we begin to see the emergence of the new generation of “XML-aware” network routers and switches. However,

(Philip Perkins) XPath is a language that allows you to address parts of an XML document, making XSLT transformations practically necessary. It also makes it an invaluable tool for managing XML data in applications such as Web applications. (R)

(Dakshi Agrawal, James Giles, Kang-Won Lee and Jorge Lobo) This tutorial shows how to use the Autonomic Computing Expression Language (ACEL), an XML-based expression language, to create an expression, parse it, prepare input for it, and evaluate it. ACEL was originally developed as a part of the Aut

(Dan Farber) The promise of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) is interoperability among disparate software components, regardless of platform. It’s the next software development nirvana, which is at the beginning of its ascendancy–meaning that there is lot of room for new compan

(Mike Champion) There’s a lot of talk recently about the complexity of the XML and web services specs and tools, and advocacy for various alternatives that are supposed to be more "simple." One recent example is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s weblog, in which he wondered whether "web services may

You may experience the System.StackOverflowException error when you open an XML document that contains a deeply nested XML document. Additionally, your application may fail. This problem may occur in the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and in the .NET Framework 1.0.

(Uche Ogbuji) In previous articles, I have worked through the archives of the XML-SIG mailing list to gather some of the most useful bits of code and threads of discussion that are still relevant. The previous articles are “Gems From the Archives ” (published Apr. 9, 2003) and “More Gems From th

(Nitin Bharti) OASIS made significant progress last week in its security standards department, ratifying the Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) 2.0 and making strong gains with the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. (R)