By Darryl K. Taft – Sybase Inc. is ramping up the support for XML and Web services in the beta versions of its PowerBuilder rapid application development tool. The beta version of PowerBuilder 9.0, announced Monday at Sybase’s TechWave 2002 user and developer conference in San Diego, includes

Version 0.8 of the Python/XML supplementary distribution has been released. Major changes include addition of DOM Level 3 (WD) load/store and dropping of Python 1.5 support.

By Richard Karpinski – If some Web services protocols such as SOAP have soared—and they have, despite high-profile consumer missteps like Microsoft Hailstorm—then it’s also fair to say that UDDI stalled on the take-off ramp.UDDI, or Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, aims to c

By Peter Galli – The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will launch a pilot program that allows companies to more easily communicate their financial information over the Internet and which helps investors more easily analyze this data. The p

by Will Provost – Even with the clear advantages it offers over the fast-receding DTD grammar, W3C XML Schema (WXS) cannot be praised for its concision. Indeed, in discussions of XML vocabulary design, the DTD notation is often thrown up on a whiteboard solely for its ability to quickly and complete

By Ann Bednarz and Phil Hochmuth – Aspect Communications this week will announce call center software that essentially will enable users to navigate Web content via voice commands.

By Jeannine Hall Gailey – This book introduces developers to the XML services architecture and prepares them for the opportunities opened up by Microsoft .NET My Services.

John Simpon explains XSLT keys and the count() function.

By Heath Stewart – I’m sure by now that you’ve heard a lot about XML and about how great it is. You might be wondering, though, what is XML? In part 1 on this series on XML tutorials, beginning and intermediate users will learn the answer to that question, along with what namespaces are and how XML

By Cameron Laird – XML storage is too sprawling a topic to offer easy answers. There’s no one fastest XML database, nor fastest XML processing language. Still, it’s helpful to understand the basic concepts of XML persistence so you can apply them to your specific situation. This article begins a new