Altova, Inc. (www.xmlspy.com), the leading producer of XML and Web Services editing tools, announced that their XML Spy 4 Suite was selected as the best Web Services Training Tool in the Web Services Journal Readers Choice Awards competition.

by Will Provost – In this article, we’ll practice a bit of that merciless science. Specifically, we’ll look at ways to control the cardinality of associations between XML elements. The basic implementation, which we’ll review momentarily, of an association between two types is simple enough but is o

by Eric van der Vlist – Xml Validation Interoperability Framework (xvif) is a proposal to embed pipe definitions in grammar based schema languages such as Relax NG (and probably W3C XML Schema). The current implementation is built on a partial implementation of Relax NG, supporting the features need

by Michael Domingo – July will be a busy month for Microsoft’s certification group and potential MCAD/MCSD.NET candidates. Microsoft recently updated exam guides for two MCAD/MCSD exams that test XML-based Web development:

by Kip Hampton – This month, we will be examining AxPoint, Matt Sergeant’s Perl/XML-based tool for creating visually rich presentations and slideshows in PDF. Originally designed for use exclusively within the AxKit XML publishing environment, AxPoint has recently undergone a major facelift a

By Peter Galli – Microsoft Corp., which faces mounting competition and price pressure focused on its Office desktop productivity suite, is set to release the first beta of an Office upgrade.

XML digital signature technology can help you implement lightweight and flexible security solutions for wireless Web services applications. In this article, Michael Yuan discusses the importance of XML digital signatures and their application. He also walks through the digital signature APIs of the

The JavaTM Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) is an integrated toolset that in conjunction with the Java platform allows Java developers to build, test and deploy XML applications, Web services, and Web applications. The technologies comprising the Java WSDP v1.0 include the Java APIs for XML i

By Clint Boulton – CTML will invoke features of other XML business vocabularies and provide an interface to supporting specifications. The CTML committee will align its work with other OASIS libraries and frameworks, such as ebXML, Universal Business Language (UBL), Business Transactions Protocol (B

By Charlie Garry – META Trend: By 2005/06, Intel-based servers will dominate at the DBMS tier. Scale-out database configurations will grow in popularity as management virtualization improves, but remain primarily a high-availability option. By 2004, XML-based content storage and rendering will becom