By Charles Babcock, Interactive Week-Edifecs, a little know software firm that is one of the powers behind the scenes in creating RosettaNet's initial business-to-business exchange formats, is offering a set of tools to make it easier to implement XML exchanges between trading partners.

Security Services Markup Language (S2ML) is the first industry standard for enabling secure e-commerce transactions through the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

The Oracle XML Developer's Kit (XDK) contains the basic building blocks for reading, manipulating, transforming and viewing XML documents. To provide a broad variety of deployment options, the Oracle XDK is available for Java, C, C++ and PL/SQL. Unlike many shareware and trial XML components, th

Two separate initiatives led by Netegrity Inc. and Securant Technologies Inc. are looking to develop an XML standard for moving security information—including authentication, authorization and user profiles—across disparate online trading systems.

by Simon St. Laurent-The show floor at XMLDevCon 2000 was focused on improving existing technology, rather than creating entirely new concepts. A few old tools improved their interfaces and schema support, and some common older practices received new and friendlier faces which may expose them to mor

XML in Record Time offers a comprehensive look at the Extensible Markup Language (XML) and provides rather lengthy coverage of HTML as well. Author Natanya Pitts uses several chapters of this book to lay a foundation of HTML knowledge and then builds upon it with the ins and outs of XML. After cove

By Evan Hansen-Tim Bray, the co-inventor of Extensible Markup Language (XML), has launched a new venture, Antarcti.ca, which is creating new technology aimed at rendering computer networks in the form of 2D and 3D maps. On Monday the venture quietly opened its Web site to the public, offering a demo