by Micah Dubinko – A form — whether a sheet of paper or a web page — represents a structured exchange of data. Web services, as typified by emerging standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, is an excellent approach to exchanging data in a structured way, although usually the exchange is between machin

A communiqué from Steven Lord (Chair, FpML Interest Rate Product Working Group) announces the release of a version 2.0 Working Draft for the FpML specification. The Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) "is an XML-based protocol enabling e-commerce activities in the field of financial deriva

By Ann Navarro – XHTML 1.0 is only the first step in the bridge between HTML and XML. Additional work at the W3C has produced several new recommendations that take us incrementally closer to a fully XML-ized HTML. Immediately after publishing XHTML 1.0, research began on the Modularization of XHTML.

This article discusses a few tips and strategies on how to prepare for the move to .NET, so that when the time comes to shift, the move will be with minimum cost and as smooth as possible. This article assumes that your company is already heavily involved with Microsoft technologies, and that you us

By Rick Parrish – Designed for C and C++ programmers who are new to XML development, this article gives an overview of tools to assemble in preparation for XML development. Tool tables outline generic XML tools like IDEs and schema designers, parsers, XSLT tools, SOAP and XML-RPC libraries, and othe

This article is the first installment of a two part tutorial introducing the Apache Software Foundation's Jakarta Struts Framework. The tutorial assumes some familiarity with XML, servlets, JSP and custom tag libraries.

By Ann Navarro – One of the most common misconceptions about XHTML is that there's nothing new in it, so designers shouldn't waste their time learning and producing XHTML-based Web pages. While it is true that XHTML 1.0 did not introduce a bevy of new features, learning XHTML could be the wi

The W3C has released an initial Working Draft of RDF Test Cases, providing a foundation for testing compliance to RDF and RDF Schema.

By Murdoch Mactaggart – XML is a major enabler of what the Internet, and latterly Web services, require in order to continue growing and developing. Yet a lot of work remains to be done on security-related issues before the full capabilities of XML languages can be realised. At present, encrypting a

by Kip Hampton – In a previous column, we covered the basics of the Simple API for XML (SAX) and the modules that implement that interface in Perl. Over the course of the next two months we will move beyond these basic topics to look at two slightly more advanced ones: creating drivers that generate