(LeRoy F. Dreyfuss) This article reviews the XML capabilities within IBM UniData and IBM UniVerse. Learn the various functions within the databases to develop robust applications that can communicate with any system using XML. Explore the U2 XDOM and XMAP APIs and how to produce XML documents from t

(Aaron Skonnard) Who would have believed that XML, such a seemingly trivial technology, could revolutionize an industry? It may have seemed like a long shot in the beginning, but the XML aficionados saw something special and pragmatic right away—a sort of duct tape for the world’s information sy

(Howard Katz) After six long years moving along the W3C’s Recommendation track, the XQuery specification is taking on much of the mythic and enduring look of a Hollywood franchise — “Star Wars” and the “Lord of the Rings” series come to mind. XQuery had its origins in a W3C-sponsored query language

(Michael Fitzgerald) Since the advent of Ruby on Rails last year, interest in the Ruby programming language seems to have grown steadily. Rails has helped the masses see what Ruby is: an elegant, easy-to-learn, and fun-to-use language, suitable even for industrial-strength applications. Ruby has bee

By now there isn’t a software developer on earth who isn’t aware of the collection of programming technologies known as AJAX. But you can’t bank awareness. So, how in concrete terms can you take advantage in your own projects of this newly popular way of delivering online content to users without re

(Shu Fang Rui) From when to choose mobile Web services to the overall design guidelines to the value types to use in mobile Web services, this article addresses many of the design considerations you need to ponder when developing Web services for mobile devices. It also covers many of the best pract

(Brett McLaughlin) Once you understand XPath syntax and location paths, accessing XML without the overhead of DOM and SAX is possible and even easy. Fortunately for Java developers, the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) provides a native Java solution for creating XPath requests and using the resul

(Patrick O’Neil, Elizabeth O’Neil, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller and Nigel Westbury) We introduce a hierarchical labeling scheme called ORDPATH that is implemented in the upcoming version of Microsoft SQL Server. ORDPATH labels nodes of an XML tree without requiring a schema (the mo

(Mark Goetsch) This fourth installment in an ongoing series on XMI leads me to a discussion of components. Components are an essential building block of your data model and are thus a valuable asset to any developer who is using models and XMI. In this article, I will discuss how components are

(Tony Marston) It is a feature of my software that I produce HTML output from XML documents with server-side XSL transformations. This means that as well as producing the XML document I transform it into HTML on the server before I send the result to the client.