by Eric van der Vlist – This article is a companion to two different works already published on XML.com: my introduction to W3C XML Schema is a tutorial introducing the language's main features, with a progression which I hope is intuitive; and my comparison between the main schema languages, an

Book by Scott Short – This in-depth guide takes enterprise developers inside the architecture, protocols, and programming practices for building Web-ready, distributed-object applications for the .NET platform.

Lisa J. Carnahan, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and past chair of the OASIS Registry Technical Commitee, points out a misconception on my part concerning the relation of ebXML registries and UDDI registries.

The W3C DOM Working Group has released new Working Drafts of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification and Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification.

By Blair Dillaway – This paper and its associated sample code cover creating a Microsoft ASP.NET Web service that conforms to a SOAP message-based interface specification.

Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook(TM) (The XML Handbook(TM)), the leading XML resource with 100,000 copies in print, is now available in a revised and expanded Fourth Edition.The new book totals more than 1,200 pages, covering the full breadth of XML applications, tools, and technologie

By John Cox – As network executives begin to experiment with Web services, they're likely to find that they need a new kind of data store: the XML database.These software products are designed to efficiently store and manage the growing numbers of XML documents that users are creating, e

by Leigh Dodds – This week the XML-Deviant dips into both the XML-DEV and xml-dist-app mailing lists to examine claims that the weight of web services are about to bring your network to it's knees.

While the non-profit sponsors of ebXML, OASIS and the United Nations, aim for the high grounds of world-wide electronic commerce, Microsoft enters the same field with what it does best: delivering a piece of software, in this case BizTalk Server.

By Benoit Marchal – The Java-based Handler Compiler (HC) project for SAX parsing nears its alpha release. This month our columnist describes how he implements the DFA construction algorithm, giving the first concrete example of using the compiler to recognize XPath.