(Thom Robbins) Last week I had lunch with the application manager of a local customer that just completed their enterprise rollout of Office 2003. We had decided to meet and discuss possible ways his team could begin to utilize this deployment. As we sat down he explained that he had been talking to

(Micah Dubinko) In my book XForms Essentials, I originally intended to include some information on running XForms engines. It turned out that progress on XForms technology was happening so rapidly anything in print would have been quickly outdated. An online approach seemed more sensible, leading to

(Isaac Dealey) In my experience, the majority of client change requests for any given application have to do with the presentation layer. This makes sense if you’re a client, because the presentation layer is the only part of the application you see.

(Torsten Grust, Sherif Sakr and Jens Teubner) Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relational XML processing stack and shows that an RDBMS can also serve as a high

(Gerrard Lindsay) Enterprise solutions typically aggregate information from myriad internal applications and external sources. Web services have gained rapid adoption as a method to easily and reliably consume the varied data required by these solutions. Situations inevitably arise in which a single

(Ed Tittel) In January 2005, a joint task force of security and standards professionals from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and the NSA (the National Security Agency) released a specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format, aka XCCDF. This sp

(Norman Walsh) In Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL, Håkon Wium Lie and Michael Day launch an aggressive attack on my assertion that “web browsers suck at printing” and “CSS is never going to fix it.” In retrospect, I regret the way that I expressed that. I suppose the shortest possible r

The W3C XML Core Working Group has released the xml:id Version 1.0 specification as a Candidate Recommendation. The xml:id CR "introduces a predefined attribute name that can always be treated as an ID and hence can always be recognized. It defines the meaning of the attribute xml:id as an ID attrib

(Drew McLellan) One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed. Any attempt at a dynamic interface involves a full roundtrip of the whole page back to the server for a rebuild–a proc

A new SOA-RM TC (Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee) has been created by OASIS members. The goal of the TC is to “establish a Reference Model to encourage the continued growth of specific and different SOA implementations whilst preserving a common layer that can be sh