by Kip Hampton – The vast majority of Perl's XML modules are built on top of XML::Parser, Larry Wall and Clark Cooper's Perl interface to James Clark's expat parser. The expat-XML::Parser combination is not the only full-featured XML parser available in the Perl World. This month we'
Author: SSWUG Research
Appending to XML with ASP
By Michael Qualls – This article is the third in a series of articles on manipulating XML data with ASP. Before proceding with this article, I recommend that you read Saving HTML Form Data to XML and Editing XML with XSL and ASP. The example in this article is very similar to the example on S
XML in Electronic Court Filing
by Ken Pittman – With over 90 million cases filed each year in the United States, electronic filing is emerging as a proven alternative to conventional case filing for courts and litigants alike. Increasingly, court clerks, judges, and attorneys are trying out the services in a growing number of pil
Government and Aerospace Applications Benefit from XML-Centric Rule Engine
By Michael Sedge – One of the primary technical problems faced by high-tech sectors like government, aerospace and defense has been how to apply a set of operating or business rules that could be shared using web technologies. This problem was resolved with the recent release of ILOG JRulesTM 3.5, t
XML:DB XML Database API Reference Implementation
The XML:DB API is an attempt to bring an ODBC or JDBC style access API to native XML databases. The goal being to bring interoperability to native XML database applications and to lower the learning curve for XML database development. The first public release of the reference Java implementati
Open-source XSLT Standard Library version 1.0 released
Steve Ball recently announced the release of version 1.0 of the open-source XSLT Standard Library (xsltsl), a set of reusable XSLT templates that developers can use to perform tasks common to many applications. Those distribution includes modules with templates for:
Online Exam Using XML & ASP
By Mohamed Najeeb – This article assumes that you are familiar with ASP, XML and HTML. Using this OnLine Exam system, we can conduct any type of objective type examinations on line. Eventhough I implemented most of the conventional things, the reader is highly appreciated to incorporate all o
PROSE XML for Production Order Specification/EDI
IDEAlliance recently announced the release of first XML version of PROSE, the Production Order Specification/EDI. PROSE XML 1.0 is said to allow "complete standardization of all production and distribution orders for printers and print buyers, ensuring unprecedented reliability and accuracy of p
XML Information Set
An XML document's information set consists of a number of information items; the information set for any well-formed XML document will contain at least a document information item and several others. An information item is an abstract description of some part of an XML document: each information
W3C Publishes Data Extraction Language (DEL) as W3C Note
The W3C has acknowledged receipt of a submission from Republica Corp. for a 'Data Extraction Language' intended to provide a basis for furthering work on any-to-XML transformations. As outlined in the Note, DEL is "an XML format for describing data conversion processes from other data fo