The first two installments of Charming Python by David Mertz provided an overview of working with XML in Python. In the year since those initial writings, however, the state of XML tools for Python has advanced significantly. Unfortunately, most of these advances have not been backwards compatible.

By Bradley L. Jones – XrML is the eXtensible Rights Markup Language that has been developed by Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and licensed to the industry royalty free in order to drive its adoption. Simply put, this is an XML-based language that is used to mark digital content such as electronic b

Bind Systems Ltd, www.bindsys.com, a software products company providing Open Web services based technology, announced the launch of its BindPartner Business Collaboration Platform at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco. The BindPartner platform delivers a business centric environment

X-Smiles is a Java-based XML browser for desktop computers and network devices. A prime objective of the project is adding multimedia support and the ability to read documents written in various XML languages to Java-based embedded network devices.

By Andrew Brown, Loren Hart, and Monica Pawlan – To enable smooth, reliable, secure, and standardized cooperation and communication, more and more companies are taking advantage of Web services. Initiatives like the Universal Discovery, Description, and Integration (UDDI) specification define ways t

by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – Several similar documents on XML Schema are already available. I discovered, however, that they're written by brilliant people who always drive things to the limit. They simply can't stop inventing cool tricks that even working group members can't imagine, and XML

Apache SOAP has released version 2.2 of their SOAP implementation, with bug fixes and enhanced documentation and samples. The list of changes includes many bug fixes and cleanup, as well as work done on the samples and documentation:

OASIS announced the renaming of the TREX technical committee to RELAX NG, reflecting "their decision to integrate TREX and RELAX in order to collaborate on a unified lightweight specification for validating XML-based languages."

Sometimes Cindy Groner must feel like she's swimming in circles in a sea of acronyms. As director of mobile traveler services at Sabre Inc., Groner oversees a team of wireless developers who, in the process of coming up with new wireless services for Sabre's customers, must creat

by Bob DuCharme – The W3C's XSLT Recommendation (available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt) is a specification describing the XSLT language and the responsibilities of XSLT processors. If you're new to XSLT, the Recommendation can be difficult to read, especially if you're not familiar with