by Hitesh Seth – This column focuses on VoiceXML (Voice eXtensible Markup Language), an emerging standard (defined by VoiceXML Forum, submitted to the W3C Voice Browser Activity Group) for the development of interactive voice-based applications. It’s one of the first standards that opens up the form

Everybody’s talking about Web services, but what about the security implications? Learn how implementing some maturing XML security standards into your Web services applications can assure an end-to-end solution

By Paula Rooney – As part of its growing portfolio of .NET services, Microsoft will expose its Passport authentication service as an XML Web service this summer, officials said. The forthcoming Microsoft Passport Web Service, which will support XML and the delivery of Simple Object Access Pro

Forum Systems Inc. unveiled an upgrade of its security appliance for companies building applications that are integrated through XML. The Forum Sentry 1500 Version 2.0 provides secure e-business process integration, protecting data formatted in XML at the content level as it moves within and between

In this installment we will extend our XMLMap into the computing territory. While XML started out as a format for end user documents, its platform independence and low computing requirements made it move into device and service configurations.

by Ali Mesbah – W3C XML Schema (WXS) is an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. Using WXS to validate XML instance documents has become a common practice. Using a schema we can also go the other way around: create or edit a valid XML instance document using the

Learn how to build a JavaScript app that reads data from external XML files, traverses that data, and then displays it in a tree format.

by Brett McLaughlin – In this tip, you’ll learn how to convert DOM structures to SAX and JDOM to allow communication with applications that do not use DOM. The code listings demonstrate how to convert from DOM to an output stream for use by SAX, and how to convert from DOM to JDOM.

By Elizabeth Montalbano – New software is part of Sun’s Project Orion strategy to “bake” all of its Java middleware into Solaris.

Version 1.5 adds one-key validation of local files, accessibility testing, and more.