By Clint Boulton – OASIS said its members have decided to hash out standards to automate the translation and localization process as a Web service.

by Lori Piquet – The polarization of Java and .NET continues apace even as the technological gap between them slams shut. Is there any real, pragmatic benefit to a benchmark between two highly competent platforms, particularly now that we have interoperability with Web services?

Just in time for Christmas shopping, two new good XML books have been published: “Practical XML for the Web” by glasshaus, and “Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers” from Prentice Hall. Take a sneak preview!

This column provides a quick overview of the EXSLT standardized extensions to XSLT 1.0. It identifies some of the more important functionality provided by the EXSLT extensions, and includes some guidelines as to their use.

by Mark Pilgrim – RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syn

By Peter Coffee – It’s easy to offer a single vision of how things ought to be; it’s harder to build a coalition of compatibility.Borland Software Corp.’s JBuilder 8 shows the strain of that competitive burden, which faces the Java development community as it confronts the monolith of Micros

By Clint Boulton – With the promise of another year around the corner, research firms are caught between wrapping up what has come before and looking ahead to what will be. Analysts at XML and Web services consultancy ZapThink made the prediction that the native XML database (NXD) niche no longer ex

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

by Rich Salz – As you might expect from the name, XML-RPC is a way of using XML to send classic Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) over the net. XML-RPC’s use of XML is very simple. It doesn’t use namespaces. It doesn’t even use attributes.

by Jonathan Goodyear – Keep your business logic centralized by implementing multiple Web service interfaces that act as gateways into it. Download a complete sample app that demonstrates these “storefronts.”