by Edd Dumbill Eric Kidd has announced an implementation of XML-RPC for C and C++. Released as open source under the BSD license, Kidd's library includes a C API and an experimental C++ api. It uses the W3C's libwww, and can provide a standalone server based on the Abyss web server.

Edifecs, a little know software firm that is one of the powers behind the scenes in creating RosettaNet's initial business-to-business exchange formats, is offering a set of tools to make it easier to implement XML exchanges between trading partners.

With XML content editors like XMetaL and XMLMate, why write XML by hand?<br> Most XML discussions focus on the technology's ability to structure data and its ability to interoperate with business partners. However, the data has to get into an XML file somehow.

In this article Darshan Singh shows us how to use SourceSafe automation and Microsoft's XML component (MSXML) to read SourceSafe Database information (projects, subprojects, files, checked-out status, etc.) & then generate an XML document for that information.

by Rick Jelliffe This article gives simple comparisons between the W3C XML Schemas and W3C XML instances W3C XML DTDs ISO SGML DTDs ISO SGML meta-DTDs Perl regular expressions

by Kip Hampton The problem: You want to take advantage of the power and simplicity that XML tools can offer, but you face a site full of aging HTML documents. The solution: Convert your documents to XHTML and put Perl and XML::XPath to work.

In a move designed to get more developers working with Web services, Microsoft Corp. announced the beta release of a new version of its SOAP Toolkit for Visual Studio.

Roger Wolter from Microsoft announced a refresh of Microsoft's SOAP Toolkit 2.0 beta 1, with fixes to "few of the more vexing bugs that have been reported thus far."

Sun Microsystems announced Monday it is rounding out its Web middleware selections by adding an Integration Server and ECXpert business-to-business server to supplement its iPlanet Application Server.

Savage Software are accepting beta testers for their C++ SVG toolkit. The initial beta is for the Win32 platform. The toolkit will ultimately be released for Unix and MacOS as well as Windows, and available either as a compiled library or as C++ source code. Features include: