By Gowri Shankar – The major advantages of XML for interoperability of data are its extensibility and its ability to represent all forms of data in text format. XML proves its worth even when dealing with binary data. This article focuses on three ways to represent binary data in XML. The first meth

By Tischelle George – IBM, Motorola, and Web-browser company Opera have drafted a proposal for combining voiceXML, which allows navigation of Web pages through the use of voice commands, with xHTML, a mark-up language used to create Web pages.

by Stefano Mazzocchi – It took two years and three different project leaders to finish Cocoon 2.0 but we made it. It's an XML framework that raises the usage of XML and XSLT technologies for server applications to a new level. Designed for performance and scalability around pipelined SAX process

by Edmund X. DeJesus – Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) is a new standard that uses XML to encode authentication and authorization information. That information can then be moved between systems within an organization, or between organizations in a transaction. Because its basis is XML, SA

Matt Sergeant has announced the upload to CPAN of XML::Handler::AxPoint, a Perl module for generating Powerpoint-like presentations/slideshows from XML documents.

XML Origin Editor is an XML development environment for Windows that also handles Extensible Style Language Transformations (XSLT) authoring, including a provision for an XSLT debugger.

By Wylie Wong – Sun executives said that the company has released a starter kit, which features a tutorial and development tools. The kit will allow software developers to use the Java language to begin building and running Web services, which allow software to be delivered over the Internet to PCs,

Xerces 2 for Java, the Apache XML Project's second generation XML parser, has now finished its beta phase and is considered production quality.

By Roger Oney – Every developer is tasked with a different set of problems, but we all find ourselves with repetitive work. The challenge is to find a way to speed up the repetitive stuff so that we have a little more time to learn the new stuff."Extending Homesite when working with XML

By Darshan Singh – In this article, we'll look at SOAP and Web services support in various Microsoft products. We'll create Web services using .NET Framework, SOAP Toolkit, and SQLXML 3.0. Next, we'll look at writing Web services clients using C#, Microsoft SOAP Toolkit, Office XP Web Se