By Phil Whiles – This article shows how to extend open-source Apache XML tools using Jacl, a Java implementation of the popular Tcl scripting language. With Jacl, you can embed scripted functionality within XML or XSL. In addition, due to its Java extensions, you can use Jacl to interact with Java o

The dream of using your remote control to interact with television broadcast shows has finally become a reality, thanks to interactive television (iTV). Here, John Papageorge explores the opportunities and challenges of creating applications for the set-top box platforms (such as OpenTV, AOLTV, and

By Matt Berger – The Web services bandwagon made a stop at software maker Corel Corp., as the company announced plans to offer a line of enterprise software tools and services for creating "smart" content that can be tied to back-end servers and modified over the Internet.

(Leigh Dodds) This week’s XML-Deviant column recounts a recent discussion about the security of SOAP, RPC, and REST.

By James Niccolai – Microsoft released two developer toolkits for building Web services on top of SQL Server 2000, its database product, and BizTalk Server, its software for tying together business applications.The releases coincide with the launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net, whic

By Matt Berger – THE WEB SERVICES bandwagon made a stop at software maker Corel, as the company announced plans to offer a line of enterprise software tools and services for creating "smart" content that can be tied to back-end servers and modified over the Internet.The company unvei

The W3C has published a Working Draft of Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 between a previous and an upcoming Last Call draft.

Reptile is Java and XML -based distributed content syndication and management software with privacy protection from co-founders of the Jakarta Jetspeed project. The extensible architecture integrates several Web and P2P technologies to combine a Hypersonic SQL (hsql) persistent back end database wit

By Bob Swart – XML documents contain content and definitions but little information about how you should display them (e.g., inside a browser). However, with an XML eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) template or transformation file, you can convert an XML document into a different (usually HTML-co

By David Mertz, Ph.D. – XML is a fairly simple format. It uses plain Unicode text rather than binary encoding, and all the structures are declared with predictable-looking tags. Nonetheless, there are still enough rules in the XML grammar that a carefully debugged parser is needed to process XML doc