(Jigar Desai) Hierarchies can be difficult to store SQL tables and even more difficult to query and display. This example will show you how you can use DataRelation to convert single table hierarchy in to nested XML and then use XSLT to transform it to nested list.
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
Tip: Use data URIs to include media in XML
(Uche Ogbuji) If you have some XML to be bundled with related media, such as an image file, you can use simple URI reference. Listing 1 is an example of some XML with such a reference — based, incidentally, on a construct in the IBM developerWorks content format.
AJAX Isn’t Just for Cleaning Dishes Anymore
(Robert Cozzi, Jr.) Until recently, moving to browser-based RPG IV applications has been limited because Web pages have to be reloaded or new pages need to be displayed in order to give the end-user the appropriate feedback. Users never really had the same quality experience as they had with a 525
Insurance Data Standards—Designing XML Messages
(Tana Sabatino) This is the second in a series of articles that explores the issues regarding the usage of XML to develop data standards in the insurance industry. This article will address how to design XML messages for standards purposes, as well as various approaches for maximizing your implement
Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other’s Toys
(Jason R. Briggs) It’s tremendously difficult to argue a RESTful approach to a service-oriented architecture (SOA), when the corporate mindshare is SOAP–where project stakeholders tout the SOA buzzword, nod their heads sagely when you say SOAP, nod their heads again when you say XML-RPC, and then l
Hacking the XML in Your TiVo
(Bob DuCharme) When I was a kid, our television set picked up just a few broadcast channels over the wire aerial mounted on our roof. This offered us a limited choice of what to watch, so we saw a lot of I Love Lucy reruns. Now that we have hundreds of channels over the satellite dish, libraries
Building an XML Utilities Package, Requirements
(Lewis R Cunningham) I am frequently asked different questions about PL/SQL, XML, getting started, methodologies, etc and have decided to bring all of that together into a set of posts. I will build a utility package to help me debug and test my XML. I’ll cover the steps I normally follow to design
AJAX and Atlas: An Overview of Two AJAX Implementations
(Ben Reichelt) Since Ajax has taken off among Web developers, there have undoubtedly been many frameworks, APIs, and libraries to allow people to leverage Ajax with ease. I’d like to take a look at two of these Ajax packages for ASP.NET and show the differences and similarities of them. I will compa
Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in Ajax
(Brett McLaughlin) In the last article in this series, I provided a solid introduction to the XMLHttpRequest object, the centerpiece of an Ajax application that handles requests to a server-side application or script, and also deals with return data from that server-side component. Every Ajax applic
Make Your ASP.NET Applications Talk with Text-to-Speech
(Sara Morgan Rea) You may have noticed that synthesized voices are becoming more commonplace. Hundreds, if not thousands of electronic toys and gadgets speak to their owners in robotic voices. Whether it is a talking baby doll, a talking pedometer, or a new automated telephone system, several produc
