by Michael Champion – Many observers have noted that the basic simplicity of XML is a fundamental reason for its rapid acceptance in electronic business. The original XML specification can be printed on about 40 pages, compared to the more than 400-page SGML specification from which it is derived. T

by Xenos J. Sroka – One constant in this high-tech age is that nothing stays constant. Things change all the time, whether it's stock prices, Florida vote tallies, or even code. On more than one occasion, programmers have had to adjust the parameters of the stored procedures nestled in their

By Stephen Lawson – IBM in the next few weeks will unveil Web Services Flow Language (WSFL), a proposal for how to define workflows for Web services, the company's director of e-business standards strategy said on Thursday at the 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10) here. Rob

by Eric van der Vlist – Even though the Semantic Web may yet seem a remote dream, there are already tools one can use to make a tiny step forward by building "semantic web sites," which can be much easier to navigate than ordinary sites. In this article, I will discuss how RSS 1.0

By Brian McWilliams – Less than 24 hours after the publication of a severe, system-level security flaw in Microsoft's IIS 5.0, source code to a program that exploits the hole and gives a remote user full control of a vulnerable server has been posted online.

By Edd Dumbill – Support for the OASIS/UN ebXML electronic business project grows as RosettaNet announce plans to integrate the ebXML Messaging Services specification into future releases of their implementation framework. The ebXML Messaging Services specification provides for secure p

By Edd Dumbill – Henry Thompson has announced a W3C XML Schema Test Collection project, to coordinate test suites for W3C XML Schema processors.

By Rick Jelliffe – XHTML Modularization makes it convenient to create specialized versions of XHTML: subsets with tailored content models and extensions in other namespaces. XHTML Modularization may be one of the most important new technologies of 2001. This article introduce the basics of XHTML mod

Sun Microsystems has released an XML Datatypes Library, supporting the data types defined by the March 16 Proposed Recommendation of XML Schema Datatypes. Written by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the new library allows developers to work with XML Schema data types outside of the context of comple

By Elinor Abreu – Two years after putting aside rivalries to work together to solve a problem with Internet data exchange, a group of leading technology companies has agreed on a new flexible standard for describing data that is transferred over the Internet that will be a boon to business-to-bus