(Aaron Skonnard) As someone who has spent the past several years learning and using the various XML APIs available throughout the industry, I can honestly say that the .NET implementations are the best I’ve seen in terms of productivity, efficiency, and extensibility.

(Deepak Vohra) Unified Modeling Language (UML), a specification created by The Object Management Group (OMG), is a visual modeling and design language that in recent years has evolved into the de facto standard for specifying and documenting complex, object-oriented software applications. UML mo

(Bob DuCharme) Whenever I explain to someone how the evolving ISO standard Schematron can help to address their particular XML data quality issues, I always enjoy the part when they ask, “What software do I need?” Chances are, they already have the necessary software installed: an XSLT processor.

(Mark M. Davydov) There’s little doubt that component reuse and increased flexibility are major objectives flowing out of the popularity of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Companies of all kinds and sizes are focused on reducing costs as well as business risk; they’re improving the delivery

(Peter Mikhalenko) In the first part of this article about device independence in the Web, I introduced the main principles from three points of view: the user, the author, and the delivery mechanism. When a request is made for a web resource, not only should the request specify the resource identif

(Najeh Hajlaoui and Christian Boitet) Due to the Internet, the number of available documents grows dramatically. There is a strategic need for companies to control information written in more than 30 languages (HP, IBM, MS, Caterpillar). This requires the installation of powerful and effective mana

(Martin LaMonica) Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex? A debate is raging over whether the number of specifications based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), defining everything from how to add security to where to send data, has mushroomed out

(Deepak Vohra and Ajay Vohra) This tutorial discusses the simpleType and complexType XML Schema structures and their corresponding representations in an XML document. XML Schema is used as the basis of an XML document structure, and some of the XML technologies, such as JAXB, are based on XML Schema

(Jason Hunter) Query may cause one of the biggest changes to server-side programming since Java servlets. XQuery is a query language specification under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that’s designed to query collections of XML data—not just XML files, but anything that can appea

(Peter Abrahams) In previous articles I have written about why XML will take over the world and I have no doubt that the trend will continue. The benefits to business and to IT are compelling, XML helps create more agile enterprises, brings business and IT closer together and makes everyone more pro