By Darryl K. Taft – IBM, Microsoft Corp. and BEA Systems Inc. are on tap to submit the Business Processing Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS), marking yet another standard for orchestrating Web

Steve Saxon introduces the ObjectXPathNavigator, which provides the power and flexibility of the XML programming model without the serialization overhead.

By Howard Katz – Part 1 of this article took an introductory look at grammars, parsers, and BNF. It then introduced JavaCC, a popular parser generator. Part 2 shows you how to modify the sample code in Part 1 so that you can use an additional tool, JJTree, to build a parse tree representation of the

In this article, you’ll learn about the following ASP.NET Web Services concepts:

by Kevin Jones – In addition to dynamic WSDL generation, the open source toolkit Axis offers a special “wrapped code generation” mode. See how Axis decides to use wrapped or unwrapped code generation based on WSDL format.

by Kendall Grant Clark – Periodically, it falls to me to investigate the state of the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG). For a geeky journalist, or for anyone who cares about the infrastructure of the Web broadly conceived, watching the TAG can be an incredibly efficient use of one’s time. So

Explore the XML Schema definition language, which is poised to play a central role in the future of XML processing, especially in Web services.

By Darryl K. Taft – The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Wednesday announced two tools for testing the interoperability of the WS-I Basic Profile.The new tools, called the Web Service Communication Monitor and the Web Service Profile Analyzer, come in both Java and C# flavor

by Howard Katz – After a brief discussion of grammars, parsers, and BNF, this article introduces JavaCC, a popular parser generator tool. You’ll develop sample code that uses JavaCC to build a custom parser, starting from a BNF description of the grammar. Part 2 goes on to show how to use an auxilli

By Erika Morphy – Like all open standards, XQuery will level the playing field for the next generation of XML-based applications, says AMR Research’s Louis Columbus. “Now it will be possible to create, search, syndicate and populate taxonomies entirely based on XML-originated data.”