(David Berlind) The variety of Web syndication techniques is one of those proverbial situations where the greatest thing about standards is that there are so many of them. It would require thesis-level research to make real sense of RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 (which is not the successor to RSS 1.0, but rather

(Uche Ogbuji) XML is careful to separate details of a file or other data source, bit-by-bit, from the abstract model of an XML document. This can be an inconvenience when comparing two XML documents for equality — either directly (for instance, as part of a test suite) or by comparing digital signa

(Mike Dierken) I’ve been exploring publish-subscribe and web-based notifications for quite some time. A few years ago, I started a project called SearchAlert in order to learn directly what it might take to do notifications at the scale of the web. Although the service hasn’t evolved into anything I

(PG Bartlett) Are you just beginning to try to figure out how XML and content management can help you wrestle with your publishing problems? Are you confused by all the jargon and acronyms that the experts are throwing around? Do you wish that someone would clear it all up for you? If so, then this

(Ting Yong Zhu) Many XML technologies and tools, such as XSL for transforming or formatting XML data, are useful and powerful. In some cases, it even makes sense to use XML technologies to process non-XML data. This article introduces the idea of handling non-XML data with XML technologies based on

Watch Mark Fussel discuss the upcoming improvements in the performance and functionality for manipulating XML in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0.

(Rafay Bin Ali) This article focuses on how the existing server-side technologies can be used to markup financial data for exchange over the Internet. Readers are asked not to confuse this with an abstract for a new markup language. As I have mentioned earlier, mechanisms do exist that allow for the

(Clint Boulton) Though Web services have been much ballyhooed for their ability to reduce the amount of manual coding for programmers, glaring inefficiencies in the way XML is digested threatens to paralyze distributed computing.

In an attempt to bring XML Web services to a larger audience, Sarvega and the Center for Advanced Defense Studies have created the Advanced XML Security Lab.

(Joe Gregorio) If you follow web services, then you may have heard of REST. REST is an architectural style that can be used to guide the construction of web services. Recently, there have been attempts to create such services that have met with mixed success. This article outlines a series of st