By Nick Langley – XML is promoted as the universal language for e-commerce, enabling business partners' IT systems to talk to one another by exchanging documents, which can be acted upon at the process level, rather than the data level. Currently, however, business partners need to work together

by Leigh Dodds – This week the XML-Deviant looks at some recent community criticism over the XML support in Internet Explorer, which has been resolved with some promising feedback from Microsoft.

The XML World 2001 San Francisco and the O'Reilly Peer to Peer & Web Services conferences, due to take place this month, have been postponed.

It is currently available for free evaluation download or purchase at www.xmlspy.com. The XML Spy 4.0 Suite is now a complete family of products for Advanced XML Application Development. The Suite consists of two completely new products; the XML Spy 4.0 XSLT Designer and the XML Spy 4.0 Do

By Jason Monberg and Mike Wynholds – XSL, or Extensible Stylesheet Language, consists of three languages for converting XML documents into other formats. XSL Formatting Objects (XML FO) describes visual formatting, while XPath accesses specific parts of an XML document. But XSL Transformations (XSLT

by Dave Carlson – In Part I of this series, I emphasized that models are an inevitable part of system analysis and design, even if a model is sometimes only in the developer's mind. By using UML to capture a conceptual model of the planned vocabulary, we are able to clarify the essential terms a

By Tony Amos – When a Web application loses momentum as it gains more users, customer complaints aren't far behind. That's when Web developers look for ways to optimize application performance. But occasionally, even a Web application that has a solid design from the outset is burdened by pe

XMLmind XML Editor (XXE for short) is a full-fledged XML 1.0 editor featuring a word processor-like view (CSS2 styled). It has been created to make technical persons comfortable and productive at editing XML documents and XML data.

By Samuel Greengard – While the Internet makes it easier to communicate, effectively exchanging information over the Web can be challenging. Now, extensible markup language (XML) simplifies the process of exchanging data, greatly improving everything from Web-based financial transactions to e-learni

As of September 2001, there are around seventy (70) toolkits available from various sources including Microsoft, Apache, Cape Clear, and so on, to aid develop SOAP client and/or server applications. The question is which one should you use? The answer is – it depends! If you are used to Microsoft t