(Sue Vickers and Peter Moskovits) Enterprise portals provide a single interface to aggregated and componentized information. They significantly reduce the navigational issues inherent with Web sites and make it easier to publish information from disparate sources. The basic building blocks of en

(Jan Mendling, Mark Strembeck, Gerald Stermsek and Gustaf Neumann) The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has become the defacto standard for Web Service composition. Yet, it does not address security aspects. This paper is concerned with access control for BPEL based proc

(Shankar Pal, Vasili Zolotov and Leo Giakoumakis) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides extensive support for XML data processing. XML data can be stored natively in an XML data type column, which can be typed according to a collection of XML schemas, or left untyped. Fine-grained data manipulation is

(Jennifer Kyrnin) The basic premise behind XML and now XHTML is that the markup language should not define how the resulting document will look. The markup language is in the document to define the actual content.

You can use the WriteXml method to write XML schema and data from the DataSet object. The XML data is written to a file, a Stream class, an XmlWriter class, or a TextWriter class. You can use one of two sets of overloaded methods for WriteXml, depending on your needs. The first set of four overl

(Edd Dumbill) Roger Costello dangled an irresistible conversation starter in front of the XML-DEV regulars, the question of whether progress in XML is best served either by simplification or added complexity. The canonical example of simplification driving progress is, of course, XML being a sim

Relatively little of the world’s data is currently stored in XML. Much of it is stored in flat files as tab-delimited text, comma separated values, or some similar format. More is locked up in databases of one kind or another, whether relational, hierarchical, or object-based. Even more is hidden in

(Scott) In our last Reporting Services article we used the ListChildren method to display a tree list of reports available to a user. In this article we will tackle the CreateSubscription method, which requires substantially more code to get running. There are more parameters to pass, and the parame

(Evangelos Petroutsos) This is Part II of an article series that describes how to pass data into and out of SQL Server not as raw data or as DataSets, but as objects that represent business entities. Getting data out of SQL Server and into an object, a process described in detail in Part I of th

(XMLover) Digital signatures are widely used as security tokens, not just in XML. In this article, we look at how to create a digital signature and the way that digital signatures are constructed. We examine the current W3C XML digital signature and consider the effects of the structure of this X