A lot of hype is buzzing around Web Services these days. New acronyms are appearing every day and protocols and tools are implemented at break-neck speed; but not many real applications are publicly available up to now.Search engine Google makes the leap now and offers the Google Web APIs in

By Bruce Johnson – Being able to post data to a web page from within a Visual Basic application can be quite handy. Even better when you can 'see' the response and process it automatically. Fortunately, there are at least two different techniques to achieve this goal. The best one depends on

Tim Waugh has released xmlto, a utility designed to act as a single XSL tool-chain "front end" for converting XML source documents into HTML, PDF, and other formats.

Paul Prescod explains why moving its API to use SOAP was a backward step for the popular search engine, and argues for a return to a pure HTTP and XML interface.

In this article, Bial Siddiqui will discuss details of SOAP communications, how objects expose their functionality using SOAP, how to invoke SOAP objects and how to exchange information between SOAP-aware applications. He'll also demonstrate the deployment of SOAP services for the WSDL applicati

by A. Russell Jones – ActiveState's Visual XSLT integrates directly into Visual Studio to give you full-featured XSLT editing and debugging capabilities. Read the full review now.

By Nicholas Chase – XSLT style sheets allow you a great deal of freedom in manipulating the data in your original XML document. There are times, however, when you really want to do actual programming, and the XSLT recommendation is designed to allow that through the use of extensions. These extensio

By Thor Olavsrud – RSA Security (NASDAQ:RSAS), in an effort to clear the way for the widespread adoption of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) specification, announced Monday that it will grant non-exclusive royalty-free license use of two of its patents to companies deploying application

by Bob DuCharme – XSLT is a language for manipulating XML documents, and XML documents are text. When you're manipulating text, functions for searching strings and pulling out substrings are indispensable for rearranging documents to create new documents. The XPath string functions incorporated

by Paul Madsen, Carlisle Adams – There are a number of efforts currently underway in standards bodies and other organizations to address various aspects of privacy with XML-based technologies. This section gives an overview of this work, noting which of the privacy concepts discussed in the first pa