The Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability is open to the public and there will be no participation fee. Interested participants should submit a position paper on a topic within scope for the workshop, with focus upon the requirements for the public representation and interchange of rules.

(Phillip Perkins) You may recall that in the early days of the Web, cohesiveness was implemented with server-side includes, which involved a great deal of laborious file management. Fortunately, as the Web matured, so did the tools used to create it. For instance, in .NET, you create Web controls to

Simon Guest shows 10 developer-focused tips, strategies, and recommendations to make the Web Services you write more interoperable with other platforms.

(Jack Herrington) In Part 2 of this two-part series on XSLT, the author shows you how to expand the XSLT 2.0 code generator that you built in Part 1 to create the PHP portion of the code that provides the database access for a Web server.

(Aaron Straup Cope) I was lucky enough to be raised by a family that places a high premium on food, cooking, and the “art of eating.” My memories of childhood are of large parties in the kitchen preparing meals and even larger parties sitting around the dinner table enjoying them.

(Molly Holzschlag) Nearly every web designer is guilty of forcing line breaks, creating tables that don’t hold tabular data, and a host of other egregious HTML sins. Now that CSS is around, Molly E. Holzschlag slaps our hands and explains why we should pay attention to each element’s content, not ju

(Edmond Woychowsky) Recently I needed to create a Web service that would allow an outside organization to enter orders on a legacy system using XML. My initial optimism about this project was squashed by the reality of dealing with the limitations of a system that was designed and coded sometime dur

OASIS announced that the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee has approved DITA 1.0 as a Committee Draft and recommended its submission for public review.

(Eric Gropp) Producing paper reports is a fundamental requirement of many applications. As more systems are exposed as services, REST, XSLT, and the mighty URI can create a reporting approach that has a number of advantages over traditional, database-direct reporting engines.

(Frank Rice) Walk through common XML tasks in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to learn more about the new XML functionality in Office 2003 Editions. Learn how to add custom schemas, work with XML maps in Excel, and create a series of mappings based on various schemas.