In this article Bob DuCharme describes a simple, general purpose SOAP client in Java that uses no specialized SOAP libraries. Instead of creating the SOAP request XML document for you under the hood, this client lets you create your own request with any XML editor (or text editor). Instead of merely

Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ:DWCH) and Software AG, Inc., Reston, Virginia, announced that Software AG will offer Datawatch's VorteXML(TM), a new software tool that allows users to easily convert structured text data or HTML into XML, and Datawatch will offer Software AG's native XML platfo

The legal track at XML Europe 2001, chaired by Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, raised worrying issues about the legal implications of distributed services relative to privacy protection, information duties, and liability issues. Reading a presentation written by Nicklas Lundblad, Cecilia Magnu

By Natalie Walker Whitlock – Last week Sun Microsystems announced that it has donated its proprietary XSLT compiler technology to the open-source Apache XML Project. The Sun XSLT Compiler — also referred to informally as "translets technology" — will be made available to the nonprofit Apac

Microsoft has added a huge array of new features in the new release of SQL Server 2000. This exciting session will offer a high level overview of those new features. Subjects covered will include the new data types, cascading DRI, user defined functions, INSTEAD OF triggers, XML, distributed views,

In this article, Laura Menke will show you how to leverage XML and XSLT technology to enable dynamic internationalization of your Web pages through a dictionary-driven approach. Provided is a sample of a generic XSLT style sheet that you can extend or include in your applications. Also included is a

by Dan Wahlin – The .Net platform offers an incredible amount of XML-related features that provide programmers with more power and flexibility in building applications. The ability to persist object state using serialization techniques has long been a useful programming construct that has been great

Glenayre Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: GEMS), a leader in unified communications solutions, announced it has joined the VoiceXML(TM) Forum at the promoter level. The VoiceXML Forum's goal is to promote VoiceXML, a language enabling Internet-based telephone services and voice-enabled access to conte

Edd Dumbill talks about how the W3C XML Schema Definition Language was released as a Recommendation at the beginning of May, at the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference. After collective sighs of relief were heaved, it would be unrealistic to expect silence to descend on the topic.

By Piroz Mohseni – I'm going to write about a platform-independent, server-side, interpretive programming language with full integration with XML. And if you thought that is just another name for Java, think again. This new programming language is called TAME (Tag-Activated Markup Enhancer) avai