Web services continue to evolve, but the underlying simple object access protocol (SOAP) technology is solid and sophisticated. James Cooper shows you how to write elaborate programs by incorporating simple design patterns into your SOAP server system.

by Kendall Grant Clark – System administrators and users need a framework for document collection that's evolved within the ecological niche of a free software Unix-like operating system. And that's exactly what the ScrollKeeper project provides. ScrollKeeper is "a cataloging system for

By Aaron Ricadela – Gates debuts 'software as a service' strategy at professional developers conference in LA.Gates previewed .Net My Services, Microsoft's vision of how software will be delivered as a service in the future. Microsoft also outlined the Global XML Web Services Arc

by Kimbro Staken – In my recent XML.com article, Introduction to Native XML Databases, I provided a general overview of native XML databases and what they might be good for. In this article we'll take a look at a native XML database implementation, the open source dbXML Core.

In this month's column, developer and author Benoît Marchal adds final features to the first release of XM, a low-cost open-source content management solution based on XSLT (in Java). New features in this revision manage download pages and tables of contents via a directory reader that makes use

The W3C, the Web’s governing body that determines the version of HTML, has decided that the next version of HTML (currently at 4.0) will be XHTML. The WAP Forum was involved in this and has decided that WAP 2.0 will be a subset of XHTML, called XHTML Mobile Profile. That means that both WAP and Web

By Rodolfo M. Raya – Need portable documents that, unlike most XML documents, include representation information? This article introduces XSL-FO (XML Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects) and explains how it can come to the rescue. To demonstrate the advantage of using XSL-FO, the article includes

By Stephen Withers – XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

By: Bas de Bakker and Irsan Widarto – Industry experts expect XQuery to do for XML and XML databases what SQL did for relational data and relational database systems: provide a vendor independent, powerful and easy-to-use method for query and retrieval of XML data.

This column, the third in a series, shows how to add semantic knowledge to an RDF application by incorporating WordNet synonym sets. With the added knowledge of the WordNet lexical database, you can search a set of RDF data for related concepts, not just one keyword at a time. As the demonstration i