Web Services Directory

IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a non-for-profit membership organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards, fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader in information technology since 1966 (founded as Graphic Communications Association) having fostered the development and adoption of standards such as GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat, papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and XML.

A portal to key XML and Web Services specifications. Covers first and second generation (WS-*) Web Services standards.

Our editors seek out and catalog informative XML articles, XML examples and tutorials, XML tools, XML implementations and more.

This example demonstrates a nice an easy way to databing an an XML Document to an ASP.NET drop down control.

A series of high-level papers and best practices providing insight and advice for incorporating XML into the enterprise.

"This is the list of Frequently-Asked Questions about the Extensible Markup Language. It is restricted to questions about XML: if you are seeking answers to questions about HTML, scripts, Java, databases, or penguins, you may find some pointers, but you should probably look elsewhere as well. It is intended as a first resource for users, developers, and the interested reader, and does not form part of the XML Specification."

A series of high-level tutorials covering the core set of supplemental XML technologies.

Detailed, comprehensive and valuable FAQ on XML Namespaces maintained by Ronald Bourret.

The home site for the Simple API for XML open source project. SAX was the first widely adopted API for XML in Java, and is a “de facto” standard. It has now been extended to other languages including C++, Perl, Python and Pascal (with a Delphi focus).

This slide collection provides an introduction and overview of XML, Namespaces, XInclude, XML Base, XLink, XPointer, XPath, DTD, XML Schema, DSD, XSLT, XQuery, DOM, SAX, and JDOM including selected links to more information about each topic.

Provides a central location for everything that a developer needs to know about XML. Examples with Source Code, Tutorials, tools, resources, books, etc.

The home pages of Charles G Goldfarb inventor of SGML and father of its descendents: HTML and XML. SGML is the International Standard (ISO 8879) language for structured document and data representation. SGML was invented in 1974 by Charles G Goldfarb who led a 12-year technical effort by several hundred people to develop its present form as an International Standard.

W3C home page for XML Inclusions. Specifies a processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion. Inclusion is accomplished by merging a number of XML information sets into a single composite Infoset. Specification of the XML documents (infosets) to be merged and control over the merging process is expressed in XML-friendly syntax (elements, attributes, URI references).

"The Open Applications Group is a non-profit consortium focusing on best practices and process based XML content for eBusiness and Application Integration. It is the largest publisher of XML based content for business software interoperability in the world. Open Applications Group, Inc. members have over 6 years of extensive experience in building this industry consensus based framework for business software application interoperability and have developed a repeatable process for quickly developing high quality business content and XML representations of that content."

Good presentation on the relationship between the various strands of XML.

XML UK aims to provide a forum for SGML and XML users and developers to share their experiences and ideas concerning the use of SGML, XML and other related standards. The main focus of XML UK activity is a programme of meetings. There are currently around 200 members of XML UK. Meetings are generally attended by between 50 and 150 participants.