(Rich Seeley) Seven months after acquiring DataPower Technologies Inc., IBM has released its first iteration of the SOA/XML hardware appliance line, focusing on identity and security management. (R)

(Keyvan Nayyeri) EXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) which is pronounced as Zamel is Microsoft’s new markup language to define dynamic or static user interfaces for .NET applications. XAML will be used in Windows Vista to design user interfaces, but can be applied to Windows XP or Windows

(Nicholas Chase) Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax, has been causing a stir in the Web world for some time now, because it enables Web designers to create an application that reacts to the user’s actions without having to reload the entire page, a capability that already exists natively in XF

(James Gardner) In Part I we discussed how the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) is helping to unify the Python web-framework world by providing a standard API through which different web applications can operate with different servers. We also looked at the HTTP protocol and how to write and depl

(Rick Strahl) Web Services and XML Messaging are gaining ever more attention and at the core of this movement is the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), which promises to bring a standard interface to calling server side code. In this article Rick discusses what SOAP is how it works and how to use

(Nicholas Chase) Much has been made about the ability of XForms to provide interactivity, and to submit information in XML. But none of that will do you any good unless you have a way to analyze the data once you send it to the server. This tip shows you how to access the submitted XML data using a

This demonstration (slides and code) provides several tips and tricks that can be used when working with ASP.NET Master Pages. Samples include referencing Master Pages from content pages, updating Master Page content dynamically, storing Master Pages in the GAC so that they can be shared across mult

(William Brogden) As organizations look around for data that should be made available by Web services, publishing or data mining, inevitably they will find data in odd formats. Writing new specialized programs for converting each oddball format into something usable can be a real time consumer. Howe

(Anghel Leonard) The following code is an example of how to use the xsl:fallback element to achieve full compatibility between XSLT different versions.

(John Boyer) The XML Schema language is a good language for capturing the syntactic constraints of an XML vocabulary. But let’s face it, it is really designed more for describing data. It’s just not powerful enough to be used for making normative contributions to W3C Recommendations like, say, XForm