On March 19, and in a private design preview four days earlier, Microsoft unveiled what Bill Gates called "probably the most important .NET building block service." Codenamed HailStorm, this suite of user-centric XML Web services turns things inside out, said its architect and distinguished

Kimbro Staken of the XML:DB initiative has announced the release of an XML:DB-developed "experimental" draft specification for a standard XML database access API similar in scope to ODBC, JDBC, or the Perl DBI. The group has also released another draft document outli

by Kip Hampton – If your problem is finding a fast, memory-efficient way to handle large XML documents, but the needs of your application make using the SAX interface overly complex, the solution is to use XML::Twig.

By: Robin Cover – HailStorm – User-Centric XML Web Services. On March 19, 2001 Microsoft Corporation announced "a set of new technologies designed to advance the Microsoft .NET strategy. The technology, code-named 'HailStorm,' is a set of user-centric XML Web services that enable develop

Wolfgang Meier's eXist XML repository layer for relational databases now supports Oracle in addition to MySQL. eXist procides structured retrieval of XML documents with support for full text search, based on a traditional RDBMS. The latest version, 0.3, includes the following new feat

by Brian Buehling – During a recent development effort, one of our clients was alarmed at the conversion costs of the proposed XML-based content management system compared to the existing MS Word-based process. This was just one instance of an alarming trend of balking at XML-based systems in favor

Microsoft made available a beta version of the XML for Analysis software development kit and an updated XML for Analysis protocol specification. This is the first online analytical processing protocol that enables the transfer of information between analytical databases and client applications, rega

by Piroz Mohseni The XML parser world is a dynamic one. As standards change, the parsers change as well–XML parsers are becoming more sophisticated. For most programming projects, the parser, at minimum, must support DOM Level 2, SAX 2, XSLT, and Namespaces. All the parsers discussed here prov

By Edd Dumbill<br> Brian McBride, creator of the Jena RDF API, has written a paper on his experiences of implementing the RDF 1.0 Model and Syntax specification. In particular he covers some of the common bugbears of the RDF implementor community including anonymous resources and reification. McBri

Tim Bray presents TAXI, a Web application architecture that utilises the power of XML to deliver a responsive user environment.