By Margaret Kane – A new report is cautioning US federal agencies to go slowly in adopting XML. The General Accounting Office found that, in the absence of any formal governmental policy or standard on XML, federal agencies might want to hold back before adopting the Web standard. But the GAO

By Nicholas Chase – In this tip, Nick shows you how to retrieve syndicated content from RDF and RSS files and convert it to headlines for your site.

by Leigh Dodds – Namespaces have probably generated more debate and confusion than any other W3C Recommendation. With the first publication of a Working Draft for Namespace 1.1, which has caused a great surge of discussion on XML-DEV, it seems like the next iteration of the specification won't b

By Paula Rooney – One major XML consortium said that Microsoft, ContentGuard, Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign and Reuters will collaborate to advance a common XML rights language.As first reported by CRN last Friday, XML interoperability committee OASIS said those members will try to advance the E

Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), Department of Computer Science Information Systems, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to announce today the immediate availability of an OASIS ebXML V2 Registry. This implementation of the OASIS ebXML V2 Registry/Repository (ebXMLR

by Evan Lenz – In my previous article, I went through a brief overview of some of the features that XPath 2.0 offers over and above XPath 1.0. We saw that XPath 2.0 represents a significant increase in functionality for XSLT users. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the new features s

by Peter G. Aitken – The Simplified Object Access Protocol, commonly known as SOAP, is a technique that uses XML to transport information over the Internet. More specifically, SOAP provides a way to invoke object methods, and to retrieve the results of those methods, using a standard and widely adop

OASIS, the XML interoperability consortium, announced its members have formed the OASIS Rights Language Technical Committee to advance a common XML rights language standard for the digital rights management (DRM) marketplace. Their work will provide a universal method for specifying and managing rig

Two new drafts detailing the future of XML namespaces, Namespaces in XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements are now available.

Call for papers on a workshop, organized by Philip Wadler, focusing on the intersection between XML and programming languages. Deadline for submission is 1 May 2002.