(Andre Charland) It’s an understatement to say that AJAX is hot right now. There’s a lot of hype; no one can argue that. It went from a geek buzzword in February to being profiled on CNN in October. So, let’s look at why AJAX is here now, and why it’s going to continue to grow and will definitely st

(Mark Alexander Bain) If you are planning to build an online knowledge base, XML might be your best choice for a repository format, because of its ease of development, its platform independence, and the fact that it is in an open and human friendly format. If you use XML then eXist, an open source X

(Srdjan Mijatovic) XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) is the only standard technology to transform XML to HTML. There are other ways to make web pages from XML, however they are either non-portable and non-standard, or they lack power and elegance of XSL, and they won’t be discussed here.

(Martin LaMonica) Slicker development techniques like AJAX, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fueling a surge in consumer Web applications. These new techniques are even reviving efforts to create what was once considered impractical: online alternatives to Microsoft

(Dave Johnson) Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard about and likely even used AJAX. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is becoming an increasingly pervasive deployment methodology, which necessitates that people start to both understand how it works and actually consider it more seriously as an

(Josh Fitzgerald) If you’re a developer and use the Internet at all, you’ve probably heard of RSS by now. The RSS format provides a Web site a way to easily share its content with other sites or client applications. An RSS feed, or channel, is simply an XML file that uses a set of defined tags t

(Brett McLaughlin) So far in this column, I’ve focused on the fairly traditional definition and use of data binding: An XML document is converted into a Java representation and used in normal Java methods (for example, getName() or setAddress()). Then, the Java object is converted back into an XML r

(John Carroll) AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn’t really anything revolutionary. It is is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables highly-interactive browser-based applications. There are a variety of AJAX definitions fl

(James Crowley) XML Serialization in .NET provides an incredibly useful (and easy) way to turn objects into XML and back again. However, in some situations, you may need more control over how your object is serialized. Recently, I found myself needing to serialize an object that contained a numb

(Mike Gunderloy) SQL Server 2005 is the first version of Microsoft’s flagship database to truly embrace XML. True, SQL Server 2000 has some bolt-on XML functionality, but in SQL Server 2005 XML is pervasive. In particular, you can use the new XML columns to actually store XML documents as part of a