A lot has been written, said, and discussed about the Extensible Markup Language (XML). As a result, there is a lot of confusion and chaos regarding exactly what XML means. Is it a language, document, modeling tool, e-Business application, or none of the above? What exactly does XML have to offer? ...

As the Internet world shifts its focus to XML and related technologies, what happens to HTML? Everywhere you go, products are becoming " - XMLitized" - as vendors rush to gain market share. While this is great for companies that are only now beginning to build their infrastructures, what ...

Over the years, HTML has only become bigger, never smaller, because new versions had to maintain backward compatibility. Thats about to change. On 5 August 2002, the first working draft of XHTML 2.0 was released and the big news is that backward compatibility has been dropped - the language can ...

This article explains why XML Schema beats DTDs hands-down for data. It looks at four features of XML Schema that are particularly suited to data representation, and shows some examples of each. Code samples include XSD schemas and schema fragments.

Even during these early stages of the evangelism of Web services, customers have already begun to ask how this technology differs from CORBA. Isn’t it just another form of distributed computing? In this installment of the Web services architect, Dan Gisolfi offers a brief overview of the ...

This article provides a high-level overview of both development environments and tools in the IBM Web Services Development Environment and Toolkit and in Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET.

What is the current state of the "Web services revolution?" This first installment of the "Web services insider series" will answer this question by reviewing the tools and technologies that have emerged over the past year, highlighting their differences and similarities.

A lot has been written, said, and discussed about the Extensible Markup Language (XML). As a result, there is a lot of confusion and chaos regarding exactly what XML means. Is it a language, document, modeling tool, e-Business application, or none of the above? What exactly does XML have to offer? ...

Over the years, HTML has only become bigger, never smaller, because new versions had to maintain backward compatibility. That"s about to change. On 5 August 2002, the first working draft of XHTML 2.0 was released and the big news is that backward compatibility has been dropped; the language can ...

As the Internet world shifts its focus to XML and related technologies, what happens to HTML? Everywhere you go, products are becoming "XMLitized" as vendors rush to gain market share. While this is great for companies that are only now beginning to build their infrastructures, what about the rest ...