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XML is a markup language. The mighty ones who created this acronym cheated a little, as XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML was released in the late 90's and received a great amount of hype. The XML standard was created by W3C to provide an easy to use and standardized way to store self-describing data (self-describing data is data that describes both its content and its structure).
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XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is not a programming language. Like HTML (and sharing a common parentage - but that's another story), XML is a means of 'marking up' the content of a document using elements (sometimes referred to as tags) to mark the beginning and end of sections of information.
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In my Thinking XML column, I frequently focus on how various industries are working toward semantic transparency, which is the shared meaning of at least the framework of what is communicated in an XML document. Either the industries do so by creating complete document formats along with the semantics of all the elements, attributes, and content, or they define terms and concepts discretely and individually, independently of the documents in which they would appear. I call these approaches top-down and bottom-up, respectively, and very active communities provide useful material on each.
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The fact that you're reading this column tells me that you're at least mildly interested in XML data binding. Just a short year ago, that would have led me to define what data binding is, go into the concepts involved, and generally be boring for several pages worth of article text. However, it isn't a year ago -- it's 2004, and data binding seems to have sunk into the consciousness of almost every XML and Java? developer working in the industry today.
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Operating systems -- and in particular their GUIs -- maintain structured, persistent data through a variety of mechanisms and in a variety of formats. Windows versions used INI files, then moved to a binary (and unified) registry; eariler versions of Mac OS had resource forks in the file system and a desktop file for its Finder; Linux and other UNIX-like systems typically used dotted, hidden files in home directories, with configuration detailed in dozens of incompatible ways between window managers and applications.
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In this article, I show you how you can extend a Web service, defined by WSDL, by adding SOAP headers. I show how SOAP handlers create and process SOAP message headers and how to configure handlers appropriately.
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The Java APIs for XML-Based Remote Procedure Call (JAX-RPC) protocol (see Resources) is Java-centric, not WSDL-centric. It contains a fairly elaborate set of rules for mapping WSDL names to Java-friendly names which follow the Java coding conventions. This is good because JAX-RPC users will be Java programmers. In fact, they may not even care that your Web service is a Web service. They probably do not know or care about WSDL and XML, and all the quirks that they bring to the table. All they may care about is that they can write Java code to call your service and expect the JAX-RPC APIs for your service to look familiar; in other words, to follow Java coding conventions.
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