by Anthony Coates – When working with data-oriented XML, there is often a requirement to handle “controlled vocabularies”, otherwise known as enumerated values. Consider the following example of a bank account summary:

In this installment we will extend our XMLMap with XML standards for documents, particularly those concerned with presenting information to users. While the main difference between XML and HTML is that XML contains no presentation information, one of the first applications of XML was in the presenta

The tips in this series explore the concept of document order and the use of so-called document order indices in SAX. This tip looks at the use of DOIs in modeling parent-child relationships in XML documents. Such DOI representations of document hierarchy are useful in building applications, such as

by Ivelin Ivanov – Server side business logic is often invariant with regard to client devices. An email client supports the same basic operations whether it’s used from a cellular phone, PDA, or a PC. To address the needs of web developers who build applications for a variety of devices, the W3C ha

Enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski checks out the speed and memory usage of several frameworks for XML data binding in Java. These include all the code generation approaches discussed in Part 1, the Castor mapped binding approach discussed in an article last year, and a surprise new entry in the

by Dan Wahlin – When you need to perform functions XSLT can’t handle, use XSLT extension objects. Download a sample showing how to call an extension object written in C# from within an XSLT stylesheet.