Tagging an XML document is, in many ways, similar to tagging an HTML document. Here are some of the most important guidelines to follow.

Sergey Melnik and Stefan Decker have created an online conversion tool for data representations including RDF/RDF Schema, DAML-O and XMI. Features include:

Version 1.2.2 of Xerces-J, the Apache XML Project's Java XML parser, is now available for download. This release supports the finalized DOM Level 2 W3C Recommendation. Other changes and bugfixes include:

The November 2000 release of the SOAP Toolkit for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 6.0 offers improved security features through the use of the SSL protocol for message transmission over the Internet. This update includes added support for several authentication mechansims. Additional information is availa

By Kimberley Levenson-With the release of SQL Server 2000, it's time to start examining some of the new features that Microsoft has added. One of the most talked about advances is its improved XML support – we now have the ability to open XML documents and save the data contained in them, as wel

By Dave Cohen- XML acts like the ASCII of the Internet, allowing interaction between hosts regardless of their operating systems, database managers, or data formats. Add ASP and standard data formating options such as CSS or XSL and you can write some impressive network apps.

by Jeff Jurvis-Middleware such as application servers, transaction servers, Web servers, and the like is a given in any business-critical application architecture. Those who have built any Web-based system did it by leveraging software components that help manage the interactions between clients suc

By Edd Dumbill-Paul Kulchenko's SOAP::Lite Perl module for SOAP now supports a basic UDDI client, as well as initial support for WSDL schemas. The UDDI support comes in the form of UDDI::Lite, which supports:

By Roberta Holland, eWEEK-The Holy Grail of easy and inexpensive data exchange between businesses got a step closer to reality this week when the World Wide Web Consortium issued the XML schema as a candidate recommendation.

Vendors planning to implement the new Document Object Model standard issued by the World Wide Web Consortium earlier this month say the new standard includes additional capabilities for what has become a key driver of the eXtensible Markup Language. DOM is used as a programming model within th