Web Services

Using this stock quotes web service, you can get: 1. Delayed equity price quotes from all U.S. stock exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NASDAQ OTC bulletin board and Pink Sheets) 2. Quotes in different formats (simple and extended) 3. Intraday ticks, price charts (past 30 days), and 4. Intraday top movers, gainers, and losers by stock exchange. ...
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Do you have a website? If so, you need an ROR XMLNS code button which leads to a full ROR/RDF code page for your website. This code tells search engines all about the special details you input into the code about your website.

This tutorial describes: PHP SOAP Extension Functions for Server Applications HelloServer.php - First SOAP Server Application HelloServer12.php - SOAP 1.2 Server Application HelloServerWsdl.php - SOAP 1.2 Server Application in WSDL Mode

This tutorial describes: What is PHP SOAP Extension? My first example with SOAP Extension. SOAP Extension functions for client applications. How to dump detailed information for debugging. A WSDL document example. How use SOAP Extension in non-WSDL mode....
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This final tip in the roundtrip series discusses how to use the mapping meta-data file to work around roundtripping issues.

The XML declaration is optional in XML files, and defaults determine most of the information in the file. However, problems are common when these defaults do not match reality -- for example, the document could use an encoding other than one of the defaults. It's always safer to make the XML declaration. This tip covers what should be included in the XML declaration on all files....
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Binary XML has generated a lot of talk, and one of the motivators is the need for a less verbose transfer format, especially for use with Web services. One solution that is already at hand is data compression. This tip shows you how to use compression to prepare XML for transmission over Web services....
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In this tip, learn about the different solutions available for passing binary data (typically files) to a Web service. The evolution of Web service protocols has gone from supporting very simple requests with simple parameters to fully supporting modern, object-oriented languages. XML-RPC, arguably one of the earliest forms of Web services, only supported simple types -- strings, integers, booleans, and the like. SOAP took this one step further with its encoding rules for objects. The last step -- improving on the binary -- came with SOAP with attachments. SOAP with attachments was originally introduced as an extension to SOAP 1.1, and it is supported by the major SOAP kits. Although SOAP 1.2, the official W3C release, does not support attachments yet, work is under way to include them in the (ideally) near future. ...
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XML is a critical ingredient in peer-to-peer information sharing schemes, including grid computing, instant messaging, and Web services. This article explores the cutting-edge efforts intended to create a unified P2P fabric based on adaptations of existing XML technology....
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In the Deploying Web services with WSDL series, htis article will explore all major technical aspects of creating, deploying, and publishing Web services -- from Web Services Markup Language (WSDL), to Simple Object access Protocol (SOAP), and Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registries. Part 1 focuses on WSDL authoring: You will learn how to manually create a WSDL interface, and then compare your effort with the output of a WSDL authoring tool....
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