(Clint Boulton) One of the most significant changes in the software industry has been the arrival of Web services , a truly distributed computing model in which applications “talk” to one another.

(Uche Ogbuji) It is often useful to keep track of the location of some data in an XML file being processed. If you are parsing a file in order to perform sophisticated search and analysis tasks, you may want to know in which element or other such node a specific pattern was found (or even at what fi

This reference provides explanations and descriptions for the javax.xml class packages.

(Peter Abrahams) The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is causing great interest amongst the regulators but not amongst CEOs. The regulators can see that it will improve their efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness. The CEOs see it as just another bit of bureaucracy diverting them from t

(Raghu Donepudi) he integration of heterogeneous software systems often requires disparate clients to share data seamlessly in real time. Two technologies that have eased this data flow are XML and Web services, which use SOAP to make the integration more seamless.

This working draft describes SVG’s XML Binding Language (sXBL). sXBL is a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG’s. sXBL is intended to be used to enable XML vocabularies (tag sets) to be implemented in terms of SVG ele

(John E. Simpson) One frustration you can still hear vented when someone first comes to XML takes the form, “Yeah, but what about the real world?” or “Show me some real-world examples!” What the speaker often means by this is that he or she simply needs to see XML in action, in some form–some a

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) RELAX NG can do almost everything the W3C XML Schema language can do, including verifying constraints on text content and attribute values specified with the W3C XML Schema simple types. However, some constraints still can’t be stated in anything less than a Turing-complete l

(David Mertz) The XML binding gnosis.xml.objectify was designed, in many ways, more as a toolkit than as a final tool. But this leaves some (potential) users confused about how to specialize it for some common tasks. In this article, the author shows readers how very thin wrappers can customize

(Hank Simon) The last time some of our internal users and external partners counted, they had more than 15 passwords they had to keep track of. Of course, they could keep all those 15 passwords in their heads. Yeah, right! Every time they needed new access to a new resource, application, or data