SOAP defines a simple wire protocol for transferring application-level data. This protocol can easily carry arbitrary Java types as serialized XML, thanks to its rich and extensible type system. In this article, the first of a two-part series on the type system support found in the Apache SOAP toolk

As the Mozilla browser nears its 1.0 release, recent builds have proved incompatible with Adobe's SVG plugin, according to a bug recently filed on Mozilla.

By Scott Sweene – SLiP is a quick, alternative syntax for creating and editing XML data by hand and if you know Python, it should also be familiar.

The Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML /mur'mul/) is a proprietary extension of the HyperText Markup Language. MRML tags can be embedded into any regular HTML document. They are completely invisible to all browsers, posing the first of a number of implementation challenges. Also deviating from s

by Kendall Grant Clark – Now that a full two months have passed, it seems a good time to look again at what the TAG has accomplished, what's on its agenda at the moment, and where it might be going next. In order to answer those questions, I will be examining the TAG's issues list, the progr

By Clint Boulton – OASIS — a group responsible for crafting XML interoperability standards — revealed the latest in its flood of technical commmittees formed over the last several months to mesh the Extensible Markup Language with other technologies. Tuesday the Boston-based said it has targeted t

XML is a critical ingredient in peer-to-peer information sharing schemes, including grid computing, instant messaging, and Web services. In this article, Anne Zieger explores the cutting-edge efforts intended to create a unified P2P fabric based on adaptations of existing XML technology.

by Bob DuCharme – Once an XML document is read into a source tree, where an XSLT stylesheet can get a hold of it, there's a lot that the stylesheet can do with the source document's attribute values. This month we'll look at how to convert attributes to result tree elements, how to grab

By Neil Deakin – "This tutorial describes XUL, the XML-based User-interface Language. This language was created for the Mozilla application and is used to define its user interface. The XUL implementation and the Mozilla browser are ever-changing. Some of the information contained within this tu

In this tip, David Mertz offers some techniques that programmers in object-oriented languages can use programmatically to ensure the validity of XML documents at the time of their creation.