(Ed Tittel) In previous XML tips we’ve looked at (and around) the Security Assertion Markup Language, aka SAML. But in the wake of increasing adoptions and use—as for example, its adoption as a cornerstone of the US Federal E-Authentication Initiative—another look seems warranted and is bound to pro

(Jim Keogh and Ken Davidson) So far in this chapter, you’ve learned how to insert one XML document into another. In addition to this, you’ll need to select, extract, delete, and validate information contained in an XML document.

(Peter V. Mikhalenko) Digital telephony is spreading wide and fast, entailing new technologies for voice communication. In this article, I’ll review a new XML language intended for usage in the telecommunications industry.

(Joe Gregorio) Last time we covered HTTP caching and how it can improve the performance of your web service. This time we’ll cover some other aspects of HTTP that, if fully utilized, can also speed up your web service.

(John Ferguson Smart) Writing consistently clear, high quality, maintainable code is an art that requires a certain amount of discipline at the best of times. Coding standards lay out rules and recommendations about the way code should be written and also enshrine good coding habits. Recently, codin

(Uche Ogbuji) The running theme of the column has been semantic transparency: the ability to correctly interpret the contents of XML documents. Semantic transparency might be the most important aspect of XML modeling. This is first in a series of articles that review the many different approaches to

(Vincent Lauria) What are all those little orange RSS and XML buttons I see everywhere? Why do I see code when I click on them? If you’re interested in the answers to these questions, read on to learn about the world of syndication.

(Tana Sabatino) In my previous article, I discussed that in order to develop an XML message that can be maintained over time, you must first focus on modeling the information and then focus on the design of the message. In this article, we’ll look into how to make the transition from the data model

(Kurt Cagle) When you talk to people who’ve heard about XForms, they like the idea in theory … until they encounter an actual XForms example. There’s a brief period of shock, a momentary glazing of eyes, then inevitable the utterance, “but it’s so … complicated!” Then they run off to the WHATWG Web

(Shari L. Gould) By aligning communications with service-oriented architecture (SOA) as part of a company’s enterprise application integration (EAI) strategy, developers can take communications and enterprise application development to the next level by integrating voice communication capabilities w