by Bob DuCharme – XPath expressions play an important role in XSLT because they let stylesheet instructions flexibly identify the parts of the input document — or, in XSLT terms, the nodes of the source tree — to act on. Let's review the basics. An XPath expression consists of one or more loca

Microsoft have released SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1, which integreates WSDL more thoroughly, and is also billed as a "fully Microsoft supported product."

Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Dave Hollander have announced a set of HTML forms for schema authors and tools implementers to enter feedback for the W3C XML Schema Candidate Recommendation phase. Those interested now have until 29 December to submit their comments. The review period was due to end

The Intel® NetStructure™ 7210 XML Accelerator is an Internet appliance that is placed between front-end routers and Web servers to help accelerate XML transactions and improve overall site performance. It offloads Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption/decryption and XML processing, handling up to 600

In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data – whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing – you need

The Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) Service is now up and running at Microsoft, IBM, and Ariba. This is an online Web Service that you can use from your applications to dynamically discover other online services, all neatly packaged in a simple XML interface.

Modularization of XHTML may still be in Candidate Recommendation, but XHTML Basic, built on top of it, is now a W3C Recommendation.

By Paul Hammond – I recently spent some time discussing integration issues with a client who wanted to use XML to store articles for a magazine style website. His XML data was stored in physical XML files on the web server, with all of the articles for a "magazine edition" in a single XML fi

The W3C's XForms Working Group has published their first complete working draft for the next generation of XML-based web forms.

XPath is a non-XML language used to identify particular parts of XML documents. XPath lets you write expressions that refer to the document's first person element, the seventh child element of the third person element, the ID attribute of the first person element whose contents are the string &#