The Web is used for many purposes these days, and educational training is no exception. Many sites provide online courses that require nothing but a Web browser and an Internet connection. Not surprisingly technical training is at the top of the list, since the targeted audience is mostly already We

Paul Kulchenko has released version 0.47 of the Perl SOAP stack SOAP::Lite, and Simon Fell has updated pocketSOAP, the Windows and PDA device SOAP stack.

by Leigh Dodds at XML.com Debates on the XML-DEV and XSL mailing lists over the last two weeks concern the futures of XSLT, XPath, and, the latest addition to the W3C XML toolkit, XML Query. There are no signs of these debates ending this week. Discussion on XML-DEV about the design of XML Quer

by Catalin Hatmanu<br> In July 2000 Microsoft released first version of SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0. In September 2000 was released the beta 1 of SOAP Toolkit Version 1.0. In my opinion the most remarkable feature that was added is the SSL support. The most recent non-beta version is version

By Steve FranklinCiting estimates that wireless web clients of various types will soon outnumber LAN-connected devices, this article offers developers tools for deciding how to add wireless support to their sites.

by Simon St. Laurent Current XML development at the W3C threatens to obliterate the original promise of XML — a clean, cheap format for sharing information — by piling on too many features and obscuring what XML does best. While users may demand some of those features for some applications, f

eXcelon Corporation, a leading provider of XML-based business-to-business infrastructure solutions, introduced eXcelon Portal Server 3.0. The next major release of the company's XML-based platform for developing and delivering self-service applications, Portal Server 3.0 includes a new integrate

Dodds introduces RDDL, the Resource Directory Description Language, the result of a recent project conducted by the XML developer community to make XML namespaces easier to use.

Managing information in its myriad forms has become a huge business—estimated to hit the $10 billion mark by 2004, according to one researcher. With enhancements to its Content Manager software, IBM Corp. (stock: IBM) said it handles more information types than anyone else. Content Manag

XML standards are defined at breathtaking speed these days. It is also difficult to keep up with the various versions of those standards. This short list focuses on the XML applications that should be of particular interest to webmasters and Web developers.