This document discusses XML web services and their components. It defines XML web services as software services exposed on the web through the SOAP protocol and described with WSDL and registered in UDDI. It describes how SOAP is used for communication, WSDL describes service interfaces, and UDDI allows for service discovery. Examples of web services are provided. The architecture of web services is shown involving clients, services, and standards. Finally, it discusses how XML data can be transformed to HTML for display in web pages using XSLT transformation rules.