by Christopher A. Jones – What many developers realized after viewing the beta code, presentations, and samples is that Microsoft has indeed been focusing on the nature of these XML-based Web services and their utility, and they've created a series of services with an infrastructure fabric under

By Benoît Marchal – A U.K.-based company uses XML to replicate the advantages of a pipeline in handling complex datasets.

Wrox have published Professional ebXML Foundations; IBM developerWorks have released two (1, 2) Python & XML tutorials, and Zvon have created a reference to Relax NG.

by James W. Cooper – Rather beat your head against the wall than use org.w3c.dom classes to read and write XML files? JDOM can free you from the trappings of clunky DOM classes and make both reading and writing XML easy.

Starting a new thread on XML for business, let me introduce yet another XML vocabulary for business terms, the Universal Business Language (UBL). After several interest groups have pushed their definitions, through the respective implementation in their products, we ended up with a handful of partly

Recent developments in the XML-RPC world include a new release of the small-footprint Java XML-RPC stack, MinML-RPC, and the continuing development of Sandstorm, a component system built on XML-RPC.

This month Benoît Marchal launches a second Working XML project. The new project, called HC (short for Handler Compiler), will take some drudgery out of event-based XML parsing by automatically generating the SAX ContentHandler for a list of XPaths. This installment of the column describes the requi

Most documents today are living documents in the sense that they are constantly updated and never finished. With the advent of HTML and Web browsers documents became also living in that they can interactively respond to events. Now this kind of life comes to XML documents with the newly standardized

by John E. Simpson – Element names and content models can be tricky things. This month, we'll start by revisiting a DTD question that came up in September. Q: How do I enforce a range of occurrences of one element inside another?

By Richard Karpinski – Guess where J2EE is heading? The next version of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, will support an array of XML-based Web services standards.