by Vincent Bedus – In today's modern web applications, there is a growing need to return larger amounts of data, and return a response back to the client quickly. Vincent Bedus shows us how we can make quick responses to the users, even with large amounts of data by creating a simple html page t

By ALAIN LEFEBVRE – In the year 2000, many marketplaces did not achieve the results that had been announced. Suddenly, the enthusiasm that was buzzing around B2B has cooled. Now that we can look at the situation with a bit of hindsight, it is easy to explain why independent marketplaces (the main ch

This is a prototype implementation of the W3C XML Query language XQuery as defined by the February 15, 2001 working draft. The purpose of this prototype is to give you a possibility to try the language and provide feedback. To run this prototpe, Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 is required. For

By Bob DuCharme – This article describes a simple, general purpose SOAP client in Java that uses no specialized SOAP libraries. Instead of creating the SOAP request XML document for you under the hood, this client lets you create your own request with any XML editor (or text editor). Instead of mere

Microsoft has added a huge array of new features in the new release of SQL Server 2000. This exciting session will offer a high level overview of those new features. Subjects covered will include the new data types, cascading DRI, user defined functions, INSTEAD OF triggers, XML, distributed views,

This is a proposal for the creation of an open-source application that will manage, display and analyse various kinds of documents in a diversity of environments. The idea of creating Durito arose during work on an academic project that aims to digitize historical documents from the Mexican Revolut

This article presents Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2000. The range of tools covered by this label enables trading partners who wish to exchange documents (or more precisely, data) to integrate applications within B2B transactions. BizTalk Server 2000 is based on tried-and-tested Micros

By Edd Dumbill – Robin Berjon has released CSS::SAC, a beta-quality Perl implementation of the Standard API for CSS, to CPAN. SAC is an API for CSS stylesheets that closely follows the event model of SAX for XML. The first release of the module was an "alpha", and this beta releas

by Alan Kotok – At the Electronic Business XML (ebXML) meeting in Vienna, Austria, 7-11 May 2001, the 150 participants approved the specifications and technical reports defining the ebXML technical architecture. The group also held its most complete proof-of-concept demonstrations at the midpoint of

By Simon St.Laurent – The W3C has published XML Infoset as a Candidate Recommendation. The new version contains an additional section on end-of-line handling and has dropped the system identifier from the document information item. The new version adds a 'references' property to attribute in