XML : Magazine Articles

Even during these early stages of the evangelism of Web services, customers have already begun to ask how this technology differs from CORBA. IsnÂ’t it just another form of distributed computing? In this installment of the Web services architect, Dan Gisolfi offers a brief overview of the differences between SOAP, DCOM, and CORBA and suggests a value proposition for Web services within the distributed computing realm.

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.

To deliver information to a user a site is needed. Web site content should be managed and that involves separation data from its presentation. The task is still often solved with the help of templates in program technologies. Though now we have XSLT technology at our disposal. Any document can be represented with data that is structured in detail with the help of XSL. It is quite enough to report the corresponding XSL template to define a proper graphic presentation for the data. XSL language is polymorphous and permits high flexibility in format changes of documents. This might seem to be St.Grail of web development - we add XSL tools to our arsenal and shorten the time of the project development thus raising its quality. But perhaps we lost sight of a significant something. Read this article about it

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 finally move on. So, what do you as a developer get in return? How about robust forms and events, a better way to look at frames and even hierarchical menus that don't require massive amounts of JavaScript. This article takes a sneak peek at what's new in XHTML 2.0 and how you might one day put it to use.

RSS and Atom are XML formats for messages and other information that is updated frequently. The documents that are written in these formats are called "newfeeds" or "feeds". Get an overview about scenarios, softwares, requirements, syntax and more.

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 of us whose sites have existed for years, accumulating documents architected on old HTML technology? Fortunately, the market for tools in this space is growing, and technologies like Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) are making it easier to migrate your repository of existing HTML documents. This article describes tools to help you convert to XML with ease.

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.

Have you ever looked for an Open Source CMS for your site? We are sure that you definitely have faced some problems while developing functional models. Maybe you even had to turn down some nice ideas about interface and content. Most likely you thought "It would be cool if there were a macro language to describe my site interfaces without any limitations to predefined stamps". This article introduces XML Sapiens - a tool to turn your ideas into life, giving you the power to set your site alive!

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? Why does it matter? Furthermore, what does XML bring to the table that other languages, documents, tools, and applications have not been able to do in myriad other ways?

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.