by Markus Egger – .NET My Services is Microsoft’s first attempt at creating a professional, commercial and widely available Web services platform. The .NET My Services umbrella hosts a number of different Web services, such as a Calendar service, a Contacts repository, and much, much more. These ser

by Bilal Siddiqui – In this two-part article, I will discuss XPath and its use in Wireless applications. In the first part, we will consider applying XPath to both XML and its Wireless counterpart WBXML (Wireless Binary XML). We will also discuss the design of an XPath processing engine suitable for

This module extends RSS to include elements which allow the description of the status and current availability of services and servers. Some data, such as whether a server is up or not, would normally be generated automatically, whilst other data, such as explanatory text for humans, might be

by Srinivas Pandrangi and Alex Cheng, et al. – Part 2 of this article builds on the XQuery language introduced in Part I of this series, digging more deeply into the XQuery data model. You'll see how to use XQuery's simple typed values, nodes, sequences, constants and variables, and operator

In a message to the ietf-xml-use mailing list, James Clark makes a detailed case for giving RELAX NG at least "equal billing" with the W3C XML schema language as a recommended formalism in IETF protocols using XML.

By Jonathan Lurie & Timothy Stockstill – Microsoft was initially slow to develop an Internet product. I recently read a quote from a ranking Microsoft employee who said, “If you cut us, we bleed XML.” While this may seem a little dramatic, it happens to be true: XML seems to be everywhere in Microso

John Zukowski – Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol you can use to add instant messaging to your applications. If you're interested in learning about Jabber but aren't quite sure where to begin, here's a review of three books on the subject to help you get off to the right start.

by Niel Bornstein – In my first article in this series, I wrote about porting a SAX application called RSSReader to the new Microsoft .NET Framework XmlReader. After publication, I received a message from Chris Lovett of Microsoft suggesting I revisit the subject. As he said, while the code I presen

There are a wide variety of Internet protocols being developed; many have need for a representation for structured data relevant to their application. There has been much interest in the use of XML as a representation method. This document describes basic XML concepts, analyzes various alternatives

by Manoj Sharma – Complex applications often consist of many individual tasks, each of which may depend upon the successful completion of other tasks. For example, you may want an application to execute only if a preceding series of steps occur without failure, in a specific sequence. Managing such