By Richard Karpinski – A group of vendors and companies involved in providing human resources software and services said they've approved a new version of XML standards to help automate the exchange of HR information.

by Roger Jennings – The emergence of XML as the lingua franca of data interchange has caused an increasing demand for storing hierarchical XML documents in relational databases. Inserting XML documents in [n]varchar or [n]text columns of SQL Server tables is easy, but retrieving rows containing rele

XML has become more popular as an authoring format, and it brings with it the frustrating choice between typing tags ad nauseum, or adopting XML GUIs that may be too expensive, too buggy or too proprietary for preference. Numerous systems, formats and tools have sprung up to provide useful authoring

By Heather Harreld – BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE VENDOR Sagent on announced support for Web services in an effort to give its customers the ability to more easily embed BI (business intelligence) into their applications and develop collaborative BI solutions leveraging data from multiple organizations.

By Craig Emilio Probus – My project team is currently developing a distributed .NET application using Web Services as a basis for a component model. Because of this intensive use of Web services, we needed to facilitate the testing process of our components for both component consumers and component

by Rich Salz – Unlike today's Web, web services can be viewed as a set of programs interacting cross a network with no explicit human interaction involved during the transaction. In order for programs to exchange data, it's necessary to define strictly the communications protocol, the data t

By Gavin Clarke – If you think the alphabet soup of web services acronyms is bad – with SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Security and WS-Routing to name but a few – then hold on to your spoon. Things are going to get much, much worse.IBM's director of e-business standards Bob Sutor, predicts between

By Erik Hennum – In current approaches, DTDs are static. As a result, DTD designers try to cover every contingency and, when this effort fails, users have to force their information to fit existing types. The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) changes this situation by giving information

Eric van der Vlist, a regular contributor to XML.com, has just completed writing XML Schema: The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML for O'Reilly, to be published in June 2002. In this interview he explains the importance of XML schema languages, and his motivations for writing the bo

By Tom Sullivan – AS THE WORLD Wide Web Consortium (W3C) works to add the finishing touches on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) 1.2, debate is heating up over Web services interoperability and SOAP's future in the Web.