Jim Rapoza, eWEEK Labs Perhaps creating a product in a new field where there are no established leaders to catch up to (or copy) is a good thing for Microsoft Corp. The company's BizTalk Server 2000 is an excellent platform for managing XML data processing among businesses and is one of the

Specifies a SOAP-based XML communication API that supports the exchange of analytical data between clients and servers on any platform and with any language.

By Edd Dumbill. In last week's W3C Technical Plenary session in Boston, some attendees were far from happy about the state of W3C XML Schema, including James Clark.

Versioning data is an ancient practise in databases. A time-stamp field is added to the database tables to record when the update happened. Many developers use the time stamp to ensure that the update makes sense: Is this user submitting some older data that wipes out newer data?

XslTransport is a COM component that integrates with Simon Fell's PocketSOAP toolkit. It works as a replacement for the HTTP transport bindings that the PocketSOAP provides. XslTransport allows you to specify a local XSL document to be used to transform the message into a response.

If you are writing XML applications using Visual Studio 6.0, then using MSXML 3.0 is a great option to work with XML documents. But if you are writing code for the .NET platform, the language of choice is C# (pronounced C Sharp) and XML classes provided by the .NET Framework are the preferred way of

PyTREX is an implementation of Tree Regular Expressions for XML (TREX) in Python. This first release includes basic support for the concepts described in sections 1 through 6 of the TREX tutorial.

Andrew Kuchling has created Quotation Exchange Language (QEL), for the encoding of quotation collections.

This document explains the implementation of OpenOffice.org import and export filter components, focusing on filter components based on the OpenOffice.org XML file format. It is intended as a brief introduction to developers that want to implement OpenOffice.org filters for foreign file formats.

The Certified Training Manual of the XMLComponents targets software developers who need to be autonomous with the XMLComponents technology. This manual is very pragmatic, and is built around workshops. It provides a lot of samples to build step-by-step.