by Ali Mesbah, Arjan Vermeij – This article describes a concept in which elements can be inserted into an XML instance document through an automatically created form-based GUI, based on the XML Schema of the instance document.

By Darryl K. Taft – The World Wide Web Consortium has released Version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) as a formal standard. The Cambridge, Mass.-based W3C released SOAP 1.2 as a full W3C Recommendation Tuesday, the organization’s language for making a specification an officia

By Matt Hines – Experts at last week’s DCI show said that the portal is becoming a crucial infrastructure component of Web services, and that basing them on standards such as XML will help enable future Web services implementations.

SoftLife’s SoftTOP™ easily automates functions and work processes, allowing you to replace old systems, automate manual processing – or both – with your industry’s XML standards for documents, data definitions and data transfer giving the initial road map.

by Rich Salz – As you may know by now, SOAP 1.2 has reached Proposed Recommendation (PR) status, which means that the XML Protocol Working Group believes that it’s done. A few PR issues have been raised. It can be fun to look at the list, as the issues range from “I found a typ” to “this isn’t full

The new release includes increased support for configurable UI control, better support for documents without schema, CSS enhancements and more.

Altova showcased their XML development tools – including a sneak preview of the new XMLSPY plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET – at Microsoft’s TechEd 2003. The new integration features XMLSPY’s powerful XML editing views and development utilities directly accessible within the Visual Studio .N

by Matt Liotta – A native XML database can make a lot of sense for organizations that want to store and access XML without all the unsightly schema mapping required to store XML in a traditional relational database system. Several commercial native XML databases exist; now, we take a first look at A

By Brian John Venn – Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. Sound dull? Far from it. SVG has many exciting features available to it such as transformations, alpha masks, filter effects, and animation. This tip provides working examples to show y

This demo shows how DataSet elements can be mapped to CDATA sections using a custom class named CDATAGenerator. Doing so helps to preserve data “as is” rather than converting some of it into entities.