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Soapbox: Why XML Schema beats DTDs hands-down for data
In his turn on the Soapbox, info-management developer and author Kevin Williams tells why he's sold on XML Schema for the structural definition of XML documents for data. He looks at four features of XML Schema that are particularly suited to data representation, and he shows some examples of each. Code samples include XSD schemas and schema fragments. 		Articles 01 Jun 2001  
 
Soapbox: Humans should not have to grok XML
Today the computing world tends toward using XML for any and all formal specifications and data descriptions. The author, a big fan of XML, asks a blasphemous question: "Is XML totalitarianism a good idea?" In this opinion piece, Terence Parr, co-founder of jGuru, demonstrates that XML makes a lousy human interface. He also provides questions to ask yourself to determine if XML is appropriate even for your project's program-to-program interface needs. 		Articles 01 Aug 2001  
 
Soapbox: Why I'm using SOAP
In the XML zone's new opinion department, Benoît Marchal steps up on the soapbox to tell why SOAP is winning him over. SOAP's selling point is its simplicity, Marchal says. Because the new protocol builds on familiar technologies, in particular the Web server and XML, it's relatively easy for developers to design and deploy SOAP servers. 		Articles 01 Feb 2001  
 
Soapbox: Magic bullet or dud?
In this Soapbox opinion piece, Brett McLaughlin casts a critical eye on the Simple Object Access Protocol, assessing the value this much-discussed new technology can provide developers and demonstrating its foundation in a mixture of the old RPC (remote procedure calls) technology and in XML. Brett examines RPC, XML-RPC, RMI, and SOAP in detail, comparing and contrasting the use of each, and discusses whether SOAP makes sense. This article also includes sample code for a SOAP envelope. 		Articles 01 Apr 2001  
 
Soapbox: Industrial strength or suds?
In Brett McLaughlin's second turn on the Soapbox, he compares the Simple Object Access Protocol in more detail with RMI and RPC, and suggests how developers can make the best choice among the three messaging protocols. He looks at the real-world SOAP implementations from IBM and Microsoft and examines the limitations of XML -- SOAP's underlying encoding format -- and the problems involved in it as a full-fledged programming language. The article includes sample code for RPC and SOAP airline ticket requests, for side-by-side comparison. 		Articles 01 May 2001  
 
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