The UDDI Working Group and Advisors Group has released the UDDI Version 3 Specification.

by Dan Wahlin – If you’ve worked with XSLT, you’re probably accustomed to using the xsl:sort element when you need to sort strings or numbers within an XML document. This element makes it simple to sort XML data while performing a loop or when calling templates. But XSLT can be overkill in certain c

By Richard Karpinski – Microsoft Wednesday released a new version of its Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) toolkit, an add-on that helps developers build Web services using its Visual Studio development tool.

By Berthold Daum and Udo Merten – XML is bringing together some fairly disparate groups into a new cultural clash: document developers trying to understand what a transaction is, database analysts getting upset because the relational model doesn’t fit anymore, and web designers having to deal with s

This week we will we will continue to make use of our previously acquired knowledge of the Google Web Services API and SVG. Now that we have the SOAP functionality in place, we need to turn towards the SVG end of the application.

by Steve Punte – Cocoon 2, part of the Apache XML Project, is a highly flexible web publishing framework built from reusable components. Although reusability is an oft-touted quality of software frameworks, Cocoon stands out because of the simplicity of the interface between the components. Cocoon 2

Many applications now take advantage of Web services technology, which allows the integration of applications regardless of platform or programming language. The use of XML-based standards makes this possible. However, integrating that data into user output during run time can be a challenge. In thi

Kohsuke Kawaguchi announced the release of RelaxMeter, an MIT-licensed Java tool that demonstrates that an “unambiguous subset of RELAX NG can be easily defined”.

By Richard Karpinski – The W3C this week released a new version of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL), a key protocol for enabling enterprise-class Web services. The new draft version of WSDL 1.2 further details how to define an XML-based description of a Web service — basically, t

by Kendall Grant Clark – Careful readers of XML.com have figured out by now that, editorially at least, we are interested in coming to terms with the REST (that is, “representational state transfer”) approach to building applications, particularly Web applications.