By Dave Kearns – Microsoft, IBM and the other ad-hoc ” trustees ” of the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) initiative have finally found a standards body to take the technology under its wing. To no one’s surprise, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Infor

This FAQ uses the example from books online titled “Sample Visual Basic Application to Update Records Using OPENXML and ADO”. It has been modified to use an XML file instead of XML text.The application is based on the assumption that the client has an XML document (created with some other ap

by Kip Hampton – This month, in place of the module introduction or other technical tutorial that usually appears here, I want to offer a few observations about the state of Perl-XML World in general, based on my experiences at the recent OScon 2002.

By Heath Stewart – This tutorial will be short and will present how a namespace is defined. Defining a namespace with a schema is important when your XML document must be not only well-formed but must match a particular namespace exactly. In some applications of XML, if the document is well-formed b

By Edd Dumbill – In his previous installment, Edd introduced Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF). FOAF is an XML/RDF vocabulary for describing, in computer-readable form, the sort of personal information that you might normally put on a home Web page. In this installment, he explores more deeply some of the i

By Michael Classen – New language specs can be both a blessing and a curse for Web developers. While new, easier to use elements provide the blessings, the removal of elements you already know can be a curse. Find out what the next XHTML version has in store in this quick overview.

By Andrew L. Newton – This document describes an application layer client-server protocol for a framework of representing the query and result operations of the information services of Internet registries. Specified in XML, the protocol defines generic query and result operations and a mechanism for

Topologi builds a variety of novel features and emphases into this editor, including strong support for non-well-formed and non-valid documents, and SGML modes.

by Marc de Graauw – Interoperability between ontologies is a big, if not the single biggest issue in B2B data exchange. For the foreseeable future there will not be a single, widely accepted B2B vocabulary. Therefore we will need mappings between different ontologies.

By Darryl K. Taft – Two technology companies are helping corporate users embrace XML-based information while ensuring the security and integrity of the messages that come into their systems.