By Mary Ann Hondo – In architecting an ebXML solution, some thought must be given to the protection of information from the modelling of the business process through the message exchange. A group of ebXML participants have authored a risk assessment document identifying the risks and countermeasures

By Tim Bray – Everyone from Forbes magazine to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer is saying that XML is at the strategic center of our industry. That makes me happy, as I helped invent XML. But there is a significant hype problem, so let's stick with the basics:

While Namespaces in XML continues to periodically surprise developers with new questions, Tom Bradford has offered a "clean" approach to namespace handling.

John Punin announced the Log Markup Language (LOGML), an XML vocabulary designed for "mining data that has been collected from web server logfiles." LOGML works in concert with XGMML, an XML vocabulary for describing Web site structure.

By Duane Nickull – Deciding on an XML vocabulary is one of the critical decisions an organization can make. The most obvious option is to select an existing vocabulary. This presentation provides strategies for locating, reviewing, and selecting just the XML vocabulary to adopt. It also delves into

New products aimed to enable large organisations to transform both documents and data into Web-ready content via a single platform are entering the market. Xenos d2e Platform is a transformation software designed to Web-enable complex documents, such as bills and statements.

Using standards such as XML and J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition), the Meta Application grabs information from predetermined databases and news sources like internet.com (Nasdaq: INTM), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) and CNET Networks.

By Pramod Kankure – This article discusses two ways to produce dynamic Web pages with Java and XSLT by passing user-request parameters from a Java backend program to an XSLT style sheet used to render the Web page. The sample code demonstrates the use of the XSLTProcessor method and a custom method,

by Bob DuCharme – XSLT's full support of XPath's math capabilities lets you do all the basic kinds of arithmetic and a little more. Let's look at a stylesheet that demonstrates these capabilities by using the values from this document:

by John E. Simpson – Q: I can't validate a document using namespaces, can I? I'm trying to validate an XML file. It uses XML namespaces, but I can't figure out how to express them inside the DTD. Here's a sample XML document: