Before you commit yourself (or your enterprise) to the world of XML digital signatures, read security author Larry Loeb's examination of the potential authentication risks.

by Leigh Dodds – The last time the Deviant reported on current events at the Apache XML project was in July 2000, during the turbulent beginnings of the Xerces 2 parser that saw the open source community coming to terms with with working alongside commercial development teams at Sun and IBM. After t

By Tom Sullivan and Ed Scannell – …database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three — IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — are brandishing XML as the not-so secret weapon for making their databases faster and using it to anchor Web services.

By Marcello Vitaletti – This article shows how to use a Java XML parser together with the Java language reflection features to create an arbitrary set of named objects according to the content of an XML file. Objects created by the proposed initialization process live in a hierarchical, global names

by Edd Dumbill – It came as a very pleasant surprise last week to hear that Adobe has released a version of its SVG browser plug-in for Linux and Solaris. Being an habitual Linux user, I had resigned myself to not being able to see SVG on the Web until the Mozilla project had progressed further with

This article describes how to write an Apache SOAP 2.2 client for a Microsoft SOAP Toolkit-based Web service.

by Michael Floyd – Stretch your Web site's functionality without going crazy—see how your server can dish up XML's benefits with minimum effort.

by Bob DuCharme – In part 1 of this three-part series, we looked at how the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space instructions let you control extra whitespace from your source tree by element type. This month we'll look at how xsl:text can not only add whitespace where you want it, but also ma

This article describes how to integrate a .NET client with an Apache SOAP 2.2-based Web service. This article assumes that a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file exists and was created by using the IBM Web Services Toolkit.

by Stuart J. Johnston – XML technologies are reshaping the world of enterprise content management. No longer implemented as monolithic systems applicable only in specialized fields, content management is now seen as a strategic opportunity for all sizes of companies and many types of applications. A