Briefing Book: New standards roundup

W3C goes backward to move forward
While one of the strengths of XML is its ability to be presented in different formats for various devices, the road to the Cascading Style Sheet standard for accomplishing this appears to be a bumpy one.
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“The WS-I Basic Profile is here!”
Web services are intrinsic to the architectural plans of many vendors, and are also key to development teams that want to see better interoperability between applications.
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XQuery percolates
The still-developing standard for querying XML documents is garnering more support from vendors. But it will likely be a while before most shops have to deal with it directly.
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