by Nigel McFarlane – Go beyond simple point-and-click interactivity in your Web pages and see how dynamic SVG provides new ways for users to supply input. Download the Adobe SVG Plugin and then try the sample now.
Other News
Database vendors keep the XML faith
By Tom Sullivan and Paul Krill – DATABASE ARCHENEMIES IBM and Oracle are at it again, and the battle over how to store and manage XML data rages on. Both companies are set to issue new versions of their relational databases in the near future, with Oracle planning a May release and IBM slatin
Oracle, DoCoMo Join on Mobile Enterprise Initiative
By Dan McDonough, Jr. – Oracle and DoCoMo plan to provide the software and services needed to convince corporations that wireless apps can deliver tangible benefits. ‘The biggest obstacle is that enterprises need to justify the investment,’ Yankee Group analyst Gene Signorini told Wireless NewsFacto
Converting RTF documents with graphics into HTML documents
In a previous tip, Khor Soon Hin showed you how to get your RTF documents onto the Web quickly. Now, what if you have some graphics in your RTF documents? What happens to them during conversion from RTF to sdocbook XML? Read on to find out.
SVG: Modularized and mobile
Mid-February the W3C released last call drafts of SVG 1.1 and SVG Mobile. SVG 1.1 is a modularized form of SVG 1.0, specified in W3C XML Schema rather than DTDs. By dividing up the functionality of SVG into modules, it facilitates the production of SVG profiles. Mobile SVG creates two such profiles:
Creating Efficient MSXML Applications
by Ben Berck – I have read dozens of books and articles directed at programmers who need to get something done with XML. While these resources can be helpful, many are for programmers new to XML development and contain examples that use tiny files (e.g., always less than 10 KB and often smaller than
Oracle loses Ellison’s Java certification challenge
Oracle Corp risks slipping further behind leading application server rivals and failing to broaden its product appeal to customers, after losing a self-imposed race for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 certification against BEA Systems Inc.
Oracle Gets Into The Collections Biz
By Michael Singer – Oracle Thursday unveiled Oracle Collections, a collections software enhanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) features. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based business software giant says the new software is part of its Oracle E-Business Suite and is now available as tradi
What Web Services Are NOT
From exploring XML – To help us unravel the hype, we welcome guest author Sriram Rajaraman, the VP of Engineering at Instantis, who will help us understand what Web services are by explaining what he believes they are not.
Reading Multiple Input Documents
by Bob DuCharme – When you run an XSLT processor, you tell it where to find the source tree document — probably in a disk file on a local or remote computer — and the stylesheet to apply to it. You can't tell the processor to apply the stylesheet to multiple input documents at once. The docume