by Edd Dumbill – It is past time that the W3C called an end to its involvement in web services. Despite the name, web services have increasingly little to do with the Web as we know it, and those at the forefront of its development seem to have little fondness for the W3C or its technologies.

by John E. Simpson – In this month's Q&A column, John Simpson explains how to handle unwanted CDATA sections in source trees and offers some advice for serving XHTML to old browsers.

By Paul Krill – SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Whether the future of databases is the traditional, relational and SQL model with XML technologies incorporated into it or a new XML-based model is a matter of debate, according to panelists during a session Tuesday at the Software Development Conference & Expo he

(Yasir Osama) In this article I will show you how to use XML file as a storage area later. When you store information on xml file you will save time and system resource if you use access database the process is more complicated, an Access database have limits on the number of users using it at a giv

By Yves Lafon and Bert Bos – This note describes a project for describing & retrieving (digitized) photos with (RDF) metadata. It describes the RDF schemas, a data-entry program for quickly entering metadata for large numbers of photos, a way to serve the photos and the metadata over HTTP, and some

By Christopher Pace – Microsoft announced that it will bring the power of .NET to handheld devices with the beta release of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework. The .NET Compact Framework, which enables XML Web services on mobile devices, is the company's next step in providing a rich computing

by Alan Kotok – The XML world recently received a double-dose of sobering news, as reports from both the U.S. General Accounting Office and NACHA, an electronic payments organization, urged their constituents to move cautiously on any commitment to XML.

By Patricia Daukantas – The HR-XML Consortium Inc. of Raleigh, N.C., attacked the report after its April 5 release, claiming that GAO did not consider the group’s achievements. GAO warned that vendors are developing proprietary XML extensions that could eventually stop interoperability. It cited fou

By Jared Jackson – The combined power of XML and XSL for representing, manipulating, and presenting data over the Web and sharing data across differing applications has been clearly demonstrated through the fast acceptance and broad usage of these technologies. Still, most developers familiar with t

by Matt Liotta – By writing to the JAXP specification, Java developers can create extensible code routines to parse any type of data into XML. This tutorial shows you how to write your own JAXP-compliant parser to transform legacy data in a comma-separated value (CSV) format, output it to a DOM, and