Operating a business from home does not mean that your life is an open book for the world to read. You will have to set specific boundaries between your work life and your private life in order to insure that your family is not interrupted by your work. You will need to establish specific...
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Ask your database manufacturer: they all provide XML import and export modules to connect XML applications with databases. In some trivial...
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XML firewalls generally protect Web services while residing in the DMZ between the hostile Internet and protected services. It is from this location they provide security policy enforcement for Web services and XML messages. To enforce security policy, the XML firewall validates message source, reads and modifies message headers, inspects the message content and...
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The vulnerability stems from a buffer overflow condition in IE for an XML component called Vector Markup Language (VML). VML handles vector images that are specified via XML inside of an HTML page. According to Verisign’s iDefense Labs division, attackers are using the vulnerability as an attack vector to download Trojans or other arbitrary code...
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The MSXML parser is intended for installation in “side-by-side” mode, which allows you to install the specific versions of the MSXML parser that you want without one installation of the MSXML parser affecting another. Thus, all separate versions of the MSXML parser can coexist. In addition, the new and previous DLLs for the parser...
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Microsoft provides several different XML parsers. The System.xml parser and the System.XML.XmlReader XML parser are included with the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The MSXML parser is included in the Msxml.dll file, the Msxml2.dll file, the Msxml3.dll file, the Msxml4.dll file, the Msxml5.dll file, the Msxml6.dll file,...
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Participate in the discussion forum. Read Benoît Marchal’s tip “Implement XMLReader ” (developerWorks, November 2003), which explains how to use a transformer to write syntactically correct documents. Check out “SAX, the power API” (developerWorks, August 2001), which explains how to use a SAX parser and compares event-based APIs (like SAX) to object-based ones (such as DOM). Avoid...
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More serious problems can arise from the use of encodings. Developers often overlook the fact that encodings do not limit the set of characters that XML supports. Every XML document supports the full Unicode character set (16-bit or 32-bit characters in XML 1.1). Encoding XML documents can reduce their size, but it does not limit...
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XML syntax is simple. Essentially, you must balance the opening and closing tags. Yet I wish I had a proverbial nickel for every e-mail I’ve received saying, “I’m trying to process the attached XML document through such and such tool and it fails — could you recommend a better tool?” Invariably, I open the...
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Today eBusiness plays a key role in the economy. Since many organizations are suffering from security problems such as computer viruses and security breaches, computer security has become a crucial concern for eBusiness. XML has already established itself in eBusiness applications, and the XML-compliant languages play an important role in almost all eBusiness application...
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Many organizations are discovering that traditional network protection and infrastructure systems lack the functionality, performance, and operational efficiencies to provide a cost effective and scalable XML Threat Prevention solution. This presentation describes the unique security challenges that XML Web Services present to traditional network protection and infrastructure solutions such as Firewalls (FW), Intrusion Detection...
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Enterprises and governments world wide are discovering that traditional network protection and infrastructure systems lack the functionality, performance, and operational efficiencies to provide a cost effective and scalable XML Threat Protection solution. This paper describes the unique security challenges that XML Web Services present to traditional network protection and infrastructure solutions such as Firewalls...
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