by Dave Carlson – The arrival of the W3C's XML Schema specification has evoked a variety of responses from software developers, system integrators, XML document analysts, authors, and designers of B2B vocabularies. Some like the richer structure and semantics that can be expressed with these new

By Kevin Williams – This column tells how to avoid some common mistakes that even smart architects make when designing an XML solution. XML architect and author Kevin Williams offers four tips for designing flexible and high performance systems.

Revision 3 of the WIPO 'Draft Legal Framework and Technical Standard' for electronic patent filings under the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) has been released for public comment. This revision includes XML DTDs for the E-PCT Standard.

James Clark has announced the release of an experimental non-XML syntax for RELAX NG and a Java translator implementation that converts instances of the syntax into RELAX NG's XML syntax.

by Edd Dumbill – Followers of this column will be more than aware that when a technology emerges from the W3C there are always teething pains. W3C Recommendations aren't quite the shrink-wrapped parcels of authority they're often taken to be. Perhaps the canonical example of this has been th

By Paul Krill – IBM Corp. at its Solutions Conference here hailed Web services as a way to deploy new XML-based applications on the Web and integrate legacy applications. The company also detailed a merged portal offering featuring Lotus K-Station and IBM's WebSphere Portal Server.

Book by Bob Ducharme – Geared toward new users of XSLT, this guide is a basic tutorial of the concepts and documentation manipulation techniques necessary for the most common XSLT tasks. Featuring an XSLT cookbook, which provides task-oriented recipes for tackling issues such as converting elements

This is an implementation of the XML-RPC specification, for Java(TM). Credit should go to Hannes Wallnoefer who maintains another XML-RPC library for Java(TM) from which several ideas have been borrowed when implementing this software. Download the current version (1.1 from June 04, 2001) whi

IPNet Solutions Inc. announced IPNet eBizness(TM) Transact 3.4 has successfully completed a second conformance validation test for the AS2 security standard. This new draft standard allows vendor applications to communicate not only EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) but also XML (Extensible M

by Vikas Pandya – Suppose you want to convert XML data into fixed-width, plain text strings—a feature that's not so easy to implement in XSLT, or perhaps you want to perform word substitutions in XML content. In cases like these, when you want to move beyond native XSLT capabilities, you can cal