Excelergy Corporation today announced that it has become a sponsor of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) to promote the industry-wide acceptance of XML standards for open electronic data exchange among retail energy companies. Excelergy, a provider of e-

As e-commerce becomes a focal point for companies scrambling to have a presence on the electronic frontier, incorporating those new ventures into the existing infrastructure becomes crucial. While a compendium of middleware applications can assist in that endeavor, a few creative applications using

The idea for this column came from a talk Nathan Torkington gave at YAPC, in which he described areas where Perl was weak, one of which is XML. Although there are many excellent Perl modules dealing with many aspects of XML (among which a good dozen offer various ways of transforming XML documents),

Following the successful launch of its eBIS-XML initiative earlier this year, BASDA (the Business & Accounting Software Developers’ Association) has now introduced its latest eBIS-XML Web Shopping Cart schema which enables companies to transmit orders generated on their websites, directly into their

Read about building business-to-business applications with JavaTM technology and XML. Within the next few years, business-to-business (B2B) commerce is expected to experience phenomenal growth. Recently, Forrester Research estimated that B2B e-commerce revenue in the United States will increase from

The previous section illustrated the basics of 4RDF, yet 4RDF has many other features. One of the more ground-breaking among those is RDF Inference Language, or RIL. RIL is considered experimental in 4RDF 0.9.1, but it does perform some heavy duty work in the OpenTechnology.org code, and is maturing

SYS-CON Media and Camelot Communications announced that XML DevCon Fall 2000 to be held November 12-15, 2000 at the San Jose DoubleTree Hotel is expected to play host XML enthusiasts from around the world, including programmers, developers, engineers, software architects, system engineers, Web devel

XMLSolutions Corporation, a leading worldwide provider of software for conducting XML-based direct materials procurement, today announced support for the bi-directional translation of Uniform Code Council (UCC) direct materials EDI transaction sets to XML through the XMLSolutions Business Integratio

4Suite is a library and collection of tools for XML and object database development using Python, with support for most UNIX flavors and Win32. Fourthought, Inc. develops 4Suite as open source software, and the package (this article discusses the 0.9.1 release) includes a set of sub-components:

Sequoia Software is the leading provider of XML-powered e-business software. Sequoia’s flagship product, XPS, leverages XML to create the premiere e-business portal. One of the unique applications of XML within the portal is ability create contextual indexes from XML content. Searches of the index p