By Scott Langdoc Here's all I want. Start with native XML data integration. Give me wizard-based data mapping between remote systems. Then I'll need complete TCP/IP-based socket management to move XML documents among systems. Oh, and a product with a non-ERP project scope and non-ERP

By Leigh Dodds The Apache XML project have started the new year with style by releasing an updated version of FOP, their XSL-FO processor. The 0.16 release contains several significant additions including column support, hyphenation and the ability to compress PDFs.

Word 2000 is a move towards Microsoft's ideal of having a single document production program that can make email, Web and paper documents. HTML is the basis for the Web and, according to Microsoft, is now a companion file format that any Word document can be saved to without loss of features

by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen Anyone contemplating the intensity of XML-related work in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) nowadays might be forgiven for finding it hard to believe that XML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation less than two years ago.

Oracle Internet File System, the first major innovation to file systems in 20 years, is an extensible file system for managing and accessing content on the internet, regardless of location or format. And it just got even better with the new update that supports XML, Java, and WebDAV.

After three years of secret development, Ray Ozzie, the creator of Lotus Notes, has resurfaced with a powerful new peer-to-peer collaboration platform, called Groove. XML Magazine Editor-in-Chief Steve Gillmor spoke with Ozzie about Groove and its underlying XML object store and communications techn

Using data islands enables us to refresh web views with static content whilst avoiding round trips to the web server. While we are all familiar with IE 5.0's XML Data Island features, we may not know that the same functionality can be obtained with IE 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.5.

The third beta of the XML Spy 3.5 development environment for XML has been released, adding several new features to the recently-added support for XML Schema.

At a news conference held in San Francisco, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) demonstrated the results of a proof-of-concept for ebXML, a new, open, standards-based framework for facilitating global trade. An initiative of the United Nations body for Tr

The XML Wrapper template described in this article transforms XML documents into Visual Basic classes, hiding the more complex parts of using the Microsoft XML parser. Developers who have little knowledge of XML or the Microsoft XML parser can use classes created with the template, thus making it ea