by Kendall Grant Clark – System administrators and users need a framework for document collection that's evolved within the ecological niche of a free software Unix-like operating system. And that's exactly what the ScrollKeeper project provides. ScrollKeeper is "a cataloging system for

Web services continue to evolve, but the underlying simple object access protocol (SOAP) technology is solid and sophisticated. James Cooper shows you how to write elaborate programs by incorporating simple design patterns into your SOAP server system.

The W3C, the Web’s governing body that determines the version of HTML, has decided that the next version of HTML (currently at 4.0) will be XHTML. The WAP Forum was involved in this and has decided that WAP 2.0 will be a subset of XHTML, called XHTML Mobile Profile. That means that both WAP and Web

In this month's column, developer and author Benoît Marchal adds final features to the first release of XM, a low-cost open-source content management solution based on XSLT (in Java). New features in this revision manage download pages and tables of contents via a directory reader that makes use

by Kimbro Staken – In my recent XML.com article, Introduction to Native XML Databases, I provided a general overview of native XML databases and what they might be good for. In this article we'll take a look at a native XML database implementation, the open source dbXML Core.

By: Bas de Bakker and Irsan Widarto – Industry experts expect XQuery to do for XML and XML databases what SQL did for relational data and relational database systems: provide a vendor independent, powerful and easy-to-use method for query and retrieval of XML data.

By Stephen Withers – XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

By Rodolfo M. Raya – Need portable documents that, unlike most XML documents, include representation information? This article introduces XSL-FO (XML Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects) and explains how it can come to the rescue. To demonstrate the advantage of using XSL-FO, the article includes

X-Hive/DB is a state-of-the-art database for XML documents. It provides a revolutionary new way to store, retrieve and query them, and so is ideal for mission-critical applications requiring the storage of very large volumes of such documents.

XML is increasingly being positioned as the next territory for the Microsoft/Oracle/IBM database war. However, the companies aren't telling you this, because none of them are very good at the technology yet.