Simon St. Laurent has announced an updated IETF draft prescribing a MIME media feature tag for XML content, which indicates the relevant namespace or namespaces in the transmitted document.

The ANSI Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 is meeting Feb. 3-8 in Seattle to evaluate processes to facilitate collaboration with the numerous industry groups and associations developing Extensible Markup Language (XML) specifications. Forging ahead to foster XML convergence and interoperabili

Recent threads on XML-DEV and elsewhere have once again illustrated the complexity behind the basic atoms of XML documents: Unicode characters. Simon St. Laurent announced the 0.4 release of Gorille, a tool for helping makers of Java XML processors, or applications that emit XML, test their characte

Debate over standards compliance came into focus on 29 January, when Sun Microsystems assembled a panel of 18 software vendors at a J2EE 1.3 compatibility event in San Francisco.

XML standards body OASIS has formed a technical committee to build a standard for Web services to be used with portals, dubbed the Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) technical committee.The group is working on a standard that will enable the plug-and-play of visual Web services into port

Use XML as a standard to structure data depending on who will use the information and what format they desire the information to be in. For example, Caterpillar customizes owner's manuals for its construction and mining equipment using XML to reflect specific customer options. The manual is tail

by John E. Simpson – Every time I update an XML file via an in-house content management system, the processed XML file contains masses of empty lines between the tags. Each time I edit and save the file the gaps get bigger.Here is the code that I think might contain the problem (XSL):

by John E. Simpson – Every time I update an XML file via an in-house content management system, the processed XML file contains masses of empty lines between the tags. Each time I edit and save the file the gaps get bigger. Here is the code that I think might contain the problem (XSL):

Once again, this column takes a break to look at what's new and what has been neglected in the normal run of discussion. This time, Uche Ogbuji examines a couple of older XML schema systems for common business transactions that are overdue for a look (xCBL, cXML), as well as a new entry to the f

by James Snell – In this article, I give a brief picture that highlights exactly what interoperability in Web services means. To do so, I am going to pull an example out of O'Reilly's recently published Programming Web Services with SOAP, which I coauthored. The example is the ubiquitous Hel