by John B. O'Donahue – One of the most interesting new developments in XML processing has been the introduction of the Xbean. Xbeans are small and simple software components that take XML as input and process it in some way, passing XML on to the next Xbean. This approach lends itself very well

by Bill Humphries – In this article, I will show how I used two PHP implementations of XML tools, RAX and XML-RPC, to create a web interface to a FileMaker Pro database. I'm using these techniques at Apple, where we have many FileMaker databases we need to put on our intranets. Since FileMaker r

XInclude.exe is a free command line program for processing XML xinclude elements according to the latest XInclude draft specification (dated May 16, 2001). When you run XInclude.exe on this document it simply replaces the xinclude:include element with the contents of the XML document part1.xml. A

Mike Brown and Jeni Tennison have developed a stylesheet for pretty printing XML. The stylesheet creates an HTML and CSS representation. A version that produces plain ASCII output is also available.

by Sandip H. Mandera – Successful e-commerce requires disparate businesses to be able to discover the services offered by others and integrate those services within their existing infrastructure. Therefore, Web services must use standard technologies for service discovery, service descriptions, and

by Martin Gudgin, Timothy Ewald – In last month's column we put a stake in the ground, offering a definition of "web service". This month we're going to examine one of the underlying protocols upon which such services are being built, namely, SOAP. The original SOAP specification, ve

Until now, there has been no off-the-shelf way to perform command-line Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations using the Microsoft® XSL processor. MSXSL is a small command-line utility that invokes MSXML3.DLL or MSXML4.DLL to perform the transformation.

By Kyle Gabhart – If you've been looking for a cross-platform, open-source XML editor, you've likely come up short. In the following series of three articles, I will walk you through the development of a simple, no frills, XML editor, utilizing several of the most common Java 2 Swing compone

The toolkit, available for free, includes support for SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1 and W3C XML Schema. It features development tools for Sun Forte for Java, remote debugging of web services, dynamic proxy generation, and many other features.

by Peter G. Aitken – Microsoft's .NET Framework offers lots of goodies for developers. With the ever-increasing importance of XML, you would expect a full set of powerful XML tools to be included. And you'd be right; the .NET Framework does not disappoint. Grouped together in the System.XML