By Howard Katz – Howard Katz introduces the W3C's XQuery specification, currently winding its way toward Recommendation status after emerging from a long incubation period behind closed doors. The complex specification consists of six separate working drafts, with more to come. This article prov

TM4J is a free topic map engine providing interfaces for the creation, manipulation, import and export of XML topic maps. Check out the features.

By Casey Chesnut – A Web Service is a web application component that exposes its interface over the Internet. It is accessible through the standard web protocol HTTP GET/POST as well as the rapidly evolving standard SOAP (a combination of HTTP and XML). This lets other distributed applications acces

This is an excerpt from the book Programming Web Services with XML-RPC, published by O'Reilly and Associates, a book that covers Web services development with Extensible Markup Language Remote Procedure Calls (XML-RPC).

Information and Content Exchange (ICE) is an XML-based standard protocol for electronic business-to-business (B2B) asset management. ICE defines an architecture and a common language that can be used as a means of automating Web content syndication (information sharing and reuse between Web sites) f

by Leigh Dodds – This week the XML Deviant reports on a community effort that's producing interesting building blocks for the Semantic Web.

In this article, we'll learn how to build data driven Web applications using SQL Server's XML support in conjunction with MSXML. We will read and write SQL Server data without using ADO, ODBC, or any other data access mechanism.

SyncML is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) protocol under development as an open standard for the universal synchronization of data between devices, one of the most important building blocks in the development of third generation (3G)wireless. The SyncML Initiative was founded in February of 2000

Unquestionably the best XML event of the year 2000, XML World is coming to San Francisco for 2001. The one event that showcases all aspects of XML – and that gives a due emphasis to the business of XML – will be opening its doors at the San Francisco Marriott for the 17th through 20th of September,

by John E. Simpson – I'm thinking, for example, of a rule like "an element name must begin with a letter (alphabet) and can be followed by alphanumeric characters." Are any special characters (like -, _, #, @, etc.) allowed in the name? Where can I find the specification that defines the