(Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Kristin Tufte, Gang He, Chun Zhang, David DeWitt and Jeffrey Naughton) XML is fast emerging as the dominant standard for representing data in the World Wide Web. Sophisticated query engines that allow users to effectively tap the data stored in XML documents will be cr

(David Dougall and Nicholas Chase) XML is a great choice for well-developed, highly interoperable applications and, as such, it is becoming more and more common both for data storage and for configuration file management. This article explores an example application that uses XML (Extensible Markup

(Steve K Speicher, Jan J. Kratky and Kevin E. Kelly) With XForms technology, you can provide a lightweight editor for an existing collection of XForms. Explore an approach to form authoring for simple, quick changes that improve the effectiveness of data collected. Typical form editing requires a se

(Dethe Elza and David Mertz) As a syndication format, Atom grew out of experience with the various flavors of RSS (of which there are many), not to create something entirely new, but to tighten up places where the specification of RSS was too vague to be useful (for instance, RSS does not specify wh

(Darryl K. Taft) The semiformal effort to set a direction for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML-style development got off to a sound start, setting the tone for the group’s goals and establishing a name for itself: the OpenAJAX Alliance.

(Mike Ellison) Microsoft Excel 2003 supports XML in a variety of ways. One application of this XML functionality is the ability to export a list of data to an XML format. This is particularly useful when working with data originally in comma-separated value files (.csv files) or fixed-width data fil

(Edmond Woychowsky) There is something refreshing about climbing up on a soapbox and ranting. It doesn’t matter what the subject of the rant is, most of us have some primal need to hop up and down and basically act like Donald Duck. Maybe that is the reason that flame wars are so popular or it could

(Tana Sabatino) In the third article of this series, I described some basic reasons for success behind one of the insurance XML standards. One key reason for its success was how the transactions were defined in the XML data stream. Instead of a specifically named aggregate, they made a controversial

(Thiru Thangarathinam) When you communicate with a Web service using SOAP, the SOAP message that is sent to the Web service follows a standard format. The XML document inside the SOAP message is structured into two main parts: the optional headers and the mandatory body. The Body element comprises t

(Adam Kolawa) Security has the inherent nature of spanning many different layers of a Web Services system. Web Services vulnerabilities can be present in the operating system, the network, the database, the Web server, the application server, the XML parser, the Web Services implementation stack, th