By Mikael Bergkvist – Thinking out of the box might be a dangerous thing. Usually it’s assumed to be good, but how can it, in a world where solutions are sold for a profit? This is the direct opposite to creativity, which is the driving force behind the capitalistic principle of creating nish

With SQL Server 2000, there are many ways you can get XML representation of relational data. The options include using FOR XML clause with SELECT statement, ADO Recordset’s Save method with adPersistXML parameter, etc. It would be nice to have a reverse mechanism, which allows turning XML document i

by Michael McCarthy – Security in Web services has been the source of much hand-wringing in the press, but it’s actually moving forward rapidly. A quickstart initiative by Microsoft, IBM, and VeriSign is helping to establish some basic, implementable, security standards. Eric Schmidt tells us why th

by Antoine Quint – Last month we completed work on a simple yet functional implementation of text wrapping for SVG. My only complaint is that the text-wrapping component lies about its XML integration. Last month I raved about how this text-wrapping component was a clean extension of SVG 1.0; but, l

by Sushant Bhatia – Here is how you Create an XML webservice using Managed Extensions for C++.

Anyone familiar with XM — the low-cost, open-source content management solution based on XSLT — knows that for all its good points, it still lacks a decent user interface. In this article, columnist Benoît Marchal uses the Eclipse platform’s open universal framework to build a user interface for X

Patrick Durusau and Jeni Tennison have announced two complementary approaches to support multiple overlapping structures over a single document.

by Bilal Siddiqui – In this second and final installment, I’ll take the concept further and explain the canonicalization requirements of CDATA sections, processing instructions, comments, external entity references and XML document subsets.

By Paul Festa – The Web’s leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization’s push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.

By Darryl K. Taft – An emerging rift among supporters of a proposed Web services security specification could slow the ratification of the standard and hamstring enterprises trying to settle on a way to make Web services transactions safer.