The long running PR battle is heating up again between those who advocate the implementation of service architectures [1] "RESTfully" using XML transferred via HTTP, vs those who work with SOAP, WSDL, and the specs built on them known as "WS-*". The item...

One of my fellow co-workers just informed me that today is the 7th birthday of XML. Sure enough, 7 years ago today is the date on the first XML 1.0 Specification . Ah, and how far we've all come since then. 7 years ago I was most of the way through my...

There is a very interesting interview with Tim Bray, one of the original editors of the XML specification, in the February 2005 ACM Queue (it's only in the print version, not online, as of this writing). Some of the more intriguing bits ... [Responding...