By Mark Neustadt – Using XML/XSL is one of the most powerful technologies available to advanced web application developers. If you have a team split into several different sections (technical, production, graphics), using XML/XSL is a saviour. You see, XML/XSL gets us many things, not the least of

The document format called reStructuredText has been adopted as one of the official source formats for Python documentation, but is also useful for other types of documentation. reStructuredText is an interesting hybrid of technologies — in syntax and appearance it is similar to other “almost-plain

The Apache Web Services Invocation Framework team announced the first open release of their Apache WSIF API.

When you deploy any application, you are expected to have a plan for management and maintenance of that codebase: That’s part of the job. But developers have been so busy learning Web services that management issues have taken a back seat. Use these requirements as a checklist for investigating prod

Rather than choosing the prevalent cumbersome format of a 1000+ page bible with pointless appendixes, a slim padded envelope revealed a 440 page book, thinner than my ThinkPad. The appendixes are real case studies, not XML references or Javadoc printouts. A first look at the Table of Contents shows

by Damian Steer – BrownSauce is a an RDF browser. It attempts, armed with no more than a knowledge of RDF and RDF Schema, to present all RDF data as intelligibly as possible.RDF is biased in favor of the data producer. Consumers may have to deal with all, some, or none of the expected proper

This article provides a set of solid guidelines about what you should do and what you shouldn’t do when working with W3C XML Schema.

by Dan Wahlin – You can use .Net classes to create a custom Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) encryption application to protect sensitive information sent from a client to a Web service. The application relies on public and private keys for the encryption and decryption of SOAP messages. It also

Jeni Tennison reopens the debate about Processing Instructions (PIs) on xml-dev by proposing to define guidelines for using them.

The tips in this series explore the concept of document order and the use of so-called document order indices in SAX. This tip looks at the use of DOIs in modeling parent-child relationships in XML documents. Such DOI representations of document hierarchy are useful in building applications, such as