Andy Clark has recently updated ManekiNeko, his Xerces Native Interface (XNI)-based ‘parser configuration’ for validating XML documents against RELAX NG grammars and accessing information in those documents using standard APIs such as DOM and SAX.

By Richard Karpinski – The OASIS standards group this week launched a new technical committee to oversee the development of UDDI, the registry and lookup technology in the Web services software "stack."

By Richard Karpinski – Swingtide, a startup with deep roots in Web services, launched this week and will deliver later this year a platform for helping enterprises make better use of XML-based Web services.Led by Jack Serfass and David Sweet, co-founders of directory and Web services vendor

by Rich Salz – You know the old saying, that a picture is worth a thousand words? There’s an awful lot of binary data out there, and XML is not going to replace it all or even a significant percentage. After all, what’s the benefit to xmlifying things like MPEG’s or program executables?

by Laurence Moroney – Defining data in XML and parsing it in XPath gives you considerable flexibility in presenting business data graphically. Learn how to write a chart server that creates dynamic business graphics from any XML source—in either Java or VB.NET.

While many software testing tool vendors provide rudimentary Web Services testing, very few vendors have presented plans for providing tools that will help companies test standards-based Service-oriented architectures, according to a report released today by ZapThink, LLC, an XML-focused industry an

A growing number of enterprise projects today call for a reliable method of binding Java objects to relational data — and doing so across a multitude of relational databases. Unfortunately (as many of us have learned the hard way) in-house solutions are painful to build and even harder to maintain

By Jay Lyman – The main functions of XML are inter-application communication, data integration and external application communication with outside partners.

The XSLT, XPath and XQuery working groups have put out a great deal of new work, including updated XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators, XQuery 1.0, XPath and XQuery Data Model, XPath and XQuery Formal Semantics, XQuery Use Cases and more.

by Michael Fitzgerald – In this article, I will explore how you can translate an XML document into a Document Type Definition (DTD), a RELAX NG schema, and then into an W3C XML Schema (WXS) schema, in that order. I’ll do this with the aid of several open source tools, and I’ll also cover a way to va