(Aaron Skonnard) Now that the dust has settled on the XML Web Services front, it seems like the right time to survey some of the mainstream Web Services available, with a focus on those offered by Microsoft. Microsoft offers several Web Services to the general public including the Microsoft.com

(Shylon Ray Hunter) XSLT(XSL Transformations) plays a vital role in the transformation and presentation of XML documents. Though the primary intent of XSLT was in fact to perform complex styling operations, it has expanded past those boundaries into a general purpose XML process transformation langu

The ExamXML was specially developed for comparing XML files. It produces comparisons very quickly and provides several options for comprehensive comparison. Reloading files after changing any of these options is not necessary. There are possibilities to save differences and common elements after com

(Clint Boulton) How can XML applications written by disparate parties work in harmony? The answer may come n a flurry of demonstrations by top-tier vendors. The foundation language for Web services, which allow applications to talk to one another, Extensible Markup Language (XML) serves as the b

This paper covers several techniques to improve the performance of queries against and modifications to the XML data type in the latest version of Microsoft® SQL Server™, SQL Server “Yukon.” To get the most value from this paper, you should have some familiarity with XML features in the context of S

A reader asks for—and receives—an XML schema that can support an unbounded number of and elements in any order. It’s more complex than it seems.

(Todd Price) Dynamic sites – sites that pull and assemble content stored in a repository – are easy to customize and capable of providing rapidly changing content. These sites provide the richest feature set for contributors and are easier and cheaper to build and manage. However, a high-traffic dyn

(Benoit Marchal) In this tip, Benoit Marchal explores APIs for XML pipelines. He concludes that the familiar XMLReader interface is appropriate for many XML components. One of the most popular designs for processing XML documents is the pipeline. A pipeline is a group of components where each com

(Brian Travis and Mae Ozkan) The main goals of web services are three-fold: –Get programs talking to each other, because we want to leverage the existing technology. –Be cheap, compact and scalable for all parties, because we want to have web services everywhere, providing services to everyon

(Dan Wahlin) Altova’s xmlspy has been one of the top XML editors for several years due to its support for XML document editing, schema design and validation, XSLT editing and debugging, and WSDL/SOAP capabilities. I’ve been a fan of xmlspy, but have often wished there were a way to integrate it