Information and business go hand in hand. Successful businesses know how to leverage the power of their information, and Net-savvy corporations have done just that. They have set up intranets, extranets, and corporate Web sites, all in an effort to help employees and customers tap into the company&#

Topicmaps.org has delivered a stable set of core deliverables, along with a draft of XML Topic Maps 1.0 and the XML Topic Maps Processing Model.

Use this form to check an XML document for well-formedness and (optionally) validity. External entity references are included, even when not validating. If the document is well-formed, the parser outputs the corresponding canonical XML.

by Eric van der Vlist-This is the first of a two-part introduction to the W3C's XML Schema technology. XML Schemas are an XML language for describing and constraining the content of XML documents. XML Schemas are currently in the Candidate Recommendation phase of the W3C development process.

By TODD R. WEISS-Microsoft Corp. and VeriSign Inc. unveiled an XML-based online security standard aimed at allowing easier integration of digital signatures and encryption for e-commerce. The protocol, called the XML key management specification (XKMS), uses the relative simplicity of XML to imple

By Peter Coffee: At XML Devcon in San Jose, Calif., last month, an attendee asked Ken North's panel on the future of software development to comment on the continuing need to write ever more new code. What's happened, he asked, to all the effort to make code more reusable during the past

Wayne Wallace looks at how you can ensure that your data integrity is maintained without writing any code. Instead, you can use the power of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to define your business rules and have your XML parser do all of the work.

by Edd Dumbill-In a keynote session at XML 2000 Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the Wide Web Consortium, outlined his vision for the Semantic Web. In one of his most complete public expositions of the vision to date, he explained the layered architecture that he foresees being developed in the next ten

by Dan Wahlin-Accessing data from a database has always been a fairly straightforward process when using an object model such as ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). However, accessing data from a database in the form of XML has usually involved resorting to custom programming routines or modifications to ex

by Eric van der Vlist-XML 2000 dedicated the first afternoon of its "XML Leading Edge" track to W3C XML Schema. The sessions highlighted XML Schema's application for validating documents, showed its extensibility, and presented applications that separate logic and presentation from the s