Vordel XML Firewall protects XML applications from malicious attack and unauthorized access. By blocking a wide range of attacks on XML applications, it shields XML applications and allows them to be deployed in safety and confidence. The XML Firewall forms an integral component of any enterprise's SOA security infrastructure and can ...

Vordel, the XML network management company, today announced the speaker line up for Vortex 2008, it?s 4th annual SOA user conference. Vordel will play host to speakers from such illustrious companies as BT, CA, CSC, Dell, EBS, nCipher, O2, TIBCO, Washington Mutual and many others. The venue for this year?s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?" ...