(Andrew J. Bradfield) This tip establishes the case for using Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) to register Web services for application-level consumption. The author provides detailed code samples and an extension API based on the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integra

(Adam Kolawa and Marvin Gapultos) Crap in, crap out — it’s an axiom that applies to many aspects of enterprise development, but none more so than building reliable and robust web applications and integration projects with Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since its inception, XML has been seen as t

(Sonu Kapoor) Word 2003 Professional now allows you to save your Word files in a specialized XML format called WordML. In this article, you’ll see how to transform Word 2003 document using XSL.

(Scott Nesbitt) DocBook XML is a popular way to create documents such as software manuals, reference guides, FAQs, technical articles and reports, and even non-technical books. On their own, DocBook XML files aren’t all that useful to their intended audience. To make them useful, you have to convert

(David Mertz) The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is a standardized vocabulary for handling information about documents. In general, the DCMI vocabulary defines a hierarchy of terms that describe the purpose, context, and origin of a document (rather than describing the document itself).

(Uche Ogbuji) One unfortunate side-effect of the success of XML is that some users tend to just throw all their familiar data-processing tasks into XML shapes without pausing much to consider the strengths and weaknesses of XML.

(Puneet Sangal) This article shows you how to publish XML documents in PDF using Apache Cocoon. Cocoon can create result documents in a variety of formats, including HTML and PDF. Cocoon’s popularity reflects that of the Adobe’s PDF format, which most vendors prefer for e-mailing richly formatted pr

(Uche Ogbuji) A critical issue in designing XML formats is figuring out how to arrange elements and represent relationships between them. Element design works best when it naturally corresponds to how people think about the concepts that each element represents. This article discusses best practices

(Elena Litani and Michael Glavassevich) In this installment of a three-part series describing best practices for writing XML applications, the authors explain how to improve your SAX and DOM applications’ performance by using the Xerces2 implementation. They also include code samples to show you ho

(Barry A. Feigenbaum and Michael Squillace) The IBM Reflexive User Interface Builder (RIB), a new technology available from alphaWorks, is an application and toolkit for building and rendering Java AWT/Swing and Eclipse SWT GUIs. RIB specifies a flexible and easy-to-use XML markup language for descr