XML processing is moving into the non-PC space, with PDAs and mobile phones acting as Web services clients and synchronizing their content with desktops via SyncML. Conserving heap and stack memory is a key requirement in this environment. With xmlpull, a new API has been devised for parsing XML.

The W3C is about to undertake a discussion of what the social meaning of RDF is — what the real world import is of an RDF statement. Kendall Clark previews the debate and recent related discussion.

By Darryl K. Taft – In a move targeted at helping those agencies involved in the homeland defense effort, OASIS is putting its XML expertise to use for the cause of national security. The new technical committee is called the OASIS LegalXML Lawful Intercept XML (LI-XML) Technical Committee. OASIS of

The following documents have been published recently by the W3C: SVG Printing Requirements, OWL Language Reference, DOM Level 3 Events, Voice XML 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation), and XML Protocol Abstract Model.

This white paper discusses the architectural issues encountered when using opaque non-XML data in XML applications, including (but not limited to) Web services and SOAP.

XSL Formatter plug-in for xmlspy® 5 is available free of charge for all users of XSL Formatter V2.4. It’s an add-on connection module for xmlspy. It offers the combination of both the formatting function of XSL Formatter and the editor function of xmlspy to format XSL-FO document. The component is d

If you write any DOM or SAX code, you need to learn Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). It rapidly generates XML mapping code for you, saving time and effort, and reducing both costs and risks. JAXB is a specification for a set of APIs and tools that generate java classes based on the domain m

RELAX NG schemas provide a more powerful, more concise, and semantically more straightforward means of describing classes of valid XML instances than do W3C XML Schemas. The virtue of RELAX NG is that it extends the well-proven semantics of DTDs while allowing orthogonally extensible datatypes and e

by Dan Ruby and Abby Christopher – XML & Web Services Magazine provides a toolbox of tools and strategies used by leading portal technology providers that can help you plan your organization’s portal offerings.

By Hitesh Seth – Last year in this column (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 2) we reviewed an initial set of VoiceXML development tools and integrated development environments (IDEs). Now we’ll review some of the new tool sets developed by independent software vendors for the development and testing of dynamic