RSS, a simple XML application to describe web site headlines, has had such enormous success that it has been pulled in many directions. By Rael Dornfest, XML.com.
High level introduction to SOAP, UDDI, WSDL. Demonstrates how these technologies fit together to provide a basis for web services and how they compare to older middleware such as CORBA, RMI, and COM.
Downloadable diagram. Shows DOM1 interfaces, attributes, and methods. Useful as overview of the DOM and for looking up the exact method name you need while programming.