by Simon St. Laurent-The show floor at XMLDevCon 2000 was focused on improving existing technology, rather than creating entirely new concepts. A few old tools improved their interfaces and schema support, and some common older practices received new and friendlier faces which may expose them to mor

Two separate initiatives led by Netegrity Inc. and Securant Technologies Inc. are looking to develop an XML standard for moving security information—including authentication, authorization and user profiles—across disparate online trading systems.

The Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) contains the basic building blocks for reading, manipulating, transforming and viewing XML documents. To provide a broad variety of deployment options, the Oracle XDK is available for Java, C, C++ and PL/SQL. Unlike many shareware and trial XML components, th

Paul Dick has announced the release of Xalan-Java 1.2.1, the most recent version of the Apache Project's XSLT processor. The new release includes several bug fixes and feature improvements. New features include:

By Evan Hansen-Tim Bray, the co-inventor of Extensible Markup Language (XML), has launched a new venture, Antarcti.ca, which is creating new technology aimed at rendering computer networks in the form of 2D and 3D maps. On Monday the venture quietly opened its Web site to the public, offering a demo

XML in Record Time offers a comprehensive look at the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and provides rather lengthy coverage of HTML as well. Author Natanya Pitts uses several chapters of this book to lay a foundation of HTML knowledge and then builds upon it with the ins and outs of XML. After cove

A tool for reading XML documents is popularly called an XML parser, though the more formal name is an XML processor. XML processors pass data to an application for authoring, publishing, searching, or displaying.

by John A. Bocharov-This article provides an overview of the resulting architectures when both the Duwamish Books, Phase 4 application and the more robust Duwamish Online application were applied in a set of SQL Server XML-based solutions.

Uche Ogbuji of Fourthought has announced a new version of 4Suite, a library of Python classes for XML programming, adding XLink support. Joining the 4Suite family of XPath, XSLT, RDF, DOM and XPointer support, 4XLink is a processor to expand XLink attributes. Also new in this release is "DbDo

by Edd Dumbill- Greg Hope laid out the future of web business as Microsoft sees it, and especially the role of XML technologies, in a talk entitled, "Web Services: Requirements, Challenges and Opportunities" at XML DevCon in San Jose on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2000. Hope, an architect of the .