ActiveState announced the availability of version 1.2 of the Komodo IDE, which now has full XSLT editing and debugging on Linux and Windows. Komodo is "a cross-platform integrated development environment for open source technologies and XSLT programming. It is optimized for programming languages

Discover how to revolutionize the online exchange of business information with this in-depth developer’s guide to Web Services—the building blocks of the .NET platform. This book takes enterprise developers inside the architecture, protocols, and programming practices for building distributed-object

While XQuery is usually considered an inappropriate tool for querying RDF collections or Topic Maps, Jonathan Robie demonstrated at XML 2001 that using XQuery functions over their normalized forms can be practical and not especially complex.

The Palo Alto, Calif.-based networking giant, which already boasts one of the strongest development communities after Linux, unveiled its Java XML Pack.The company says it's a quick and easy way for developers to get all the latest XML and Web services technologies for the Java platform.

By Eric Schmidt – At PDC, I delivered a session on the topic of reliable XML Web services (Web services). This talk spawned from numerous conversations that I have had over the past year. Among the various FAQs about building XML Web services, reliability falls into the top five issues facing develo

by Leigh Dodds – This week, the XML-Deviant reviews the debate over the publication of the first Working Draft of XML 1.1.

The OASIS Customer Information Quality (CIQ) Technical Committee announced that it has accepted the submission of CRML, the XML vocabulary specification that defines customer relationships. Originally developed by MSI Business Solutions Pty. Ltd., CRML provides an open, application- and vendor-indep

By Matt Powell – Debugging can be a particularly challenging part of any development work, even when you are sitting at your desk with all your normal development tools and resources. It can become a lot more challenging if you have to move your debugging environment to a cold and noisy computer lab

by Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald – Dear Santa Claus, We have both been very good this year. We've done our best to promote peace and understanding among web service developers around the world. We have run into some problems, however, with the Web Service Description Language (WSDL).

This step-by-step article describes how to integrate an Apache SOAP 2.2 client with an XML Web Service that is based on Active Server Pages (ASP) .NET. This article assumes that the ASP .NET server-side component exposes the Web method with the WebMethod attribute and does nothing more than provide