by Wei Meng Lee – Developers interested in programming for wireless devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants must use the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). To develop WAP applications, Wireless Markup Language (WML), which is based on XML, is designed to display content on mo

By Fabian Pascal – In my article Managing data with XML: Forward to the past? in this series, I questioned the use of XML for data management. I received a critical reaction from Rick Jelliffe, who claims to be a contributor to XML. Following a brief email exchange, I wrote a three-part article as a

Daniel Veillard, the maintainer of libxslt, the GNOME XSLT library, has announced its first stable release, version 1.0.0.

By Fabian Pascal – The inventors of XML, Jon Bosak and Tim Gray, described in a Scientific American article the problem that their invention was intended to solve. What the authors are talking about here is nothing but database management. And, in fact, telling "what things are, how they

by Joe Johnston – XML-RPC is a protocol that allows programs of different languages on different machines to easily talk to each other. By sending a well-defined XML document over unadorned HTTP, a client program can make a remote procedure call to a server. The server processes the request and wrap

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 to at

Jason van Zyl proposed to accept the Helma XML-RPC implementation, already used by Turbine, into the Jakarta Apache project, provoking a strong pushback from xml-soap committer Sam Ruby.

By Michael Meehan – Though the two electronic trading formats have been cast as mortal foes, the standards bodies behind them have agreed to create a set of shared business processes that could ultimately create standards harmony in the world of e-commerce.

By Mike Hogan – I often see articles talking about XML versus EDI. Many companies say that they are using, or planning to use XML because it is faster or cheaper, but they never really explain why this is. So I thought that I would give a quick rundown on the issues.

by Fabio Arjona Arciniegas, Fabio Arsiniegas – C++ XML treats, from a C++ exclusive point, all major standards, toolkits, and types of applications dealing with XML as a format for representing and exchanging data, as well as behavior. C++ explains the implementation of applications and reusable fra