Those wishing to submit late-breaking news or vendor presentations for IDEAlliance's XML 2001 conference must do so by October 1.

This Thinking XML column shows how to combine metadata collected from multiple XML source documents into a single Resource Description Framework (RDF) model for effective querying. In this follow-up to his previous installment that introduced how to use XML and RDF together for knowledge management,

by Edd Dumbill – Over the last six months, the downturn in the tech sector has dampened many a wild and hopeful grab for dot-com glory, and we're now faced with the prospect of an even more widespread economic malaise. So there are points of inflection in our comprehension of the world ar

by Micah Dubinko – A form — whether a sheet of paper or a web page — represents a structured exchange of data. Web services, as typified by emerging standards like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, is an excellent approach to exchanging data in a structured way, although usually the exchange is between machin

Apache Cocoon 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the Apache Cocoon XML publishing framework that is supposed to remove all those design constraint that emerged from the Apache Cocoon 1 experience. This documentation is alpha, like anything else, so don't expect that much. If you are not a devel

By Thor Olavsrud – Working on the assumption that customers are sold on applications and not technology — and that customers know their needs best — networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. launched a community Web site that aims to connect its IP telephony services customers with independent XML devel