http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/ Notes of a Software Developer in Tokyo, Japan who still has a soft spot for C#, Java and Python en-us 2003-10-07T17:12:07+09:00 2006-07-10T09:27:06+09:00 A simpler way to specify and generate XML Schemas RELAX NG Compact Syntax... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000271.html I was looking for an XPath Turorial and found this one.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000269.html I'm thinking about how to secure SOAP messages. At first everyone thinks, "Aha! just transport it using SSL" but as this WebService Security presentation notes "SOAP messages are intended to be passed through chained WebServices". This leads to the need for signing and encryption Some proposals have been developed: This W3C document specifies the syntax and processing rules of a SOAP header entry to carry digital signature information within a SOAP 1.1 Envelope.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000125.html Did I dream it or can you legally mix two XML schemas in one XML document? The reason I ask is I want to have a legal XHTML document augmented with my own tags that indicate the geographical location of the blog entry. Later: I think what I am talking about is XML Namespaces. Now to study how these are parsed and whether a validating parser validates them or ignores them.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000086.html I just installed SOAPpy097 and when I run SOAPtest.py I get a exception: xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: :5:44: not well-formed (invalid token) What's really surprising is that a simple search on Google for it gave me no clues! I'm just hoping that someone will hit page this and give me a clue. Come to think of it, recently my biggest banes in life recently has been from tools that use XML parsers (i.e Ant & SOAP). The tools are fine but XML parsers are so terse in their error messages. It's as if they are offended that you have presented them with something... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000064.html