(Eric McMullen) “Heuristics” is a word to inspire fear and loathing among the non-technical. But actually, it’s one of the friendliest design-related concepts out there. This article suggests five heuristics for ensuring the human readability of your XML documents. These aren’t iron-clad rules o

(Wangming Ye) Explore the source of the common interoperability challenges facing Web services integration across platforms. This third part in a series describes how the different naming conventions between J2EE technology and .NET can cause difficulty in Web services interoperability.

(Andre Tost) You can define SOAP headers in a WSDL definition using what are commonly called explicit and implicit headers. Learn the difference between these two styles and how these differences might impact you when developing with JAX-RPC.

The Microsoft Office Word 2003 Software Development Kit (SDK) provides information and assistance for making the best use of the expanded XML features and support available in Microsoft Office Word 2003.

(Laurence Moroney) XML is a wonderful thing. It has empowered a whole new class of application—loosely-coupled Web services cooperating to form applications—with XML being the glue that binds them together through well-known, easy to parse documents of data or well-known easy to understand commands

(Robert D. Anderson) The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) holds many advantages over information authored directly in HTML, including better reuse, easily changed presentation styles, and easy single sourcing. In Part 2 of this two-part series on how to quickly migrate HTML topics to DI

Digital Evolution, a leading provider of SOA and Web services management and security software, today announced the release of the industry’s first business-to-business Web services security solution for .NET Web services.

(Uche Ogbuji) It’s not always easy to find XML schemata and Web services that meet your exact needs. This tip shows you how to comb through the enormous variety of Internet resources to find schemata and Web services using common search criteria.

The OASIS ebXML Registry Technical Committee has voted to approve its ebXML Registry Version 3.0 specification as a Committee Draft and to advance the draft for public review in preparation for ballot as an OASIS Standard.

(Mark Porter) This article describes a technique for using XSLT to map between relational and object representations of data.