(Benoit Marchal) This is the concluding article in a series that looks at common pitfalls with the deployment of XML. XML has been around for…seven years already! During that time, I’ve been involved in quite a few consulting projects and have taught many seminars on XML technology. I’ve notic

(Stan Kitsis) Inline schemas are XML schema definitions included inside XML instance documents. Like external schema documents, inline schemas can be used to validate that the instance matches the schema constraints. By default, System.xml disables processing of inline schemas; to enable them, set t

(Wendy Schott) Talk to most J2EE shops today and they’ll tell you that expert developers are required, development cycles are long, modifications are difficult, and maintenance is costly. Development has become overly complex and enterprises are looking for new ways to streamline the process and red

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a format of graphic that can be generated on the fly by using the data extracted from XML files or a database. Creating images on the fly in the other formats like GIF, JPEG, and BMP are not easy since they cannot be created dynamically by extracting data from the d

(Jack D. Herrington) People hate to wait. In fact, when it comes to a computer, they hate to wait more than about 200 milliseconds. This can be a problem when your Web-based application uses a process that takes many seconds or even minutes. You can’t just put up a progress dialog or a wait cursor.

(Thomas M. Stockwell) On October 18, IBM announced that it had purchased Cambridge, Massachusetts-based DataPower Technology Inc. for an undisclosed amount of money. DataPower Technology markets hardware appliances that speed and secure message traffic that flows through service-oriented architectur

(Doug Davis) Well, ok — firewalls themselves aren’t bad, but if you think about what asynchronous message processing means, they certainly throw an interesting monkey-wrench into the mix. Suppose you have a Web service client running on your home computer and you try to call out to some service on

(Ben Hammersley) The Atom Syndication Format is the next generation of XML-based file formats, designed to allow information–the contents of web pages, for example–to be syndicated between applications. Like RSS before it, Atom places the content and metadata of an internet resource into a machine

(Uche Ogbuji) The RELAX NG XML schema language allows you to say “permit some text here” in a variety of ways. Whether you’re writing patterns for elements or attributes, it is important to understand the nuances between the different patterns for character data. In this tip, the author discusses th

SOAP – Simple Object Access Protocol – is the hottest thing in XML development right now. It has a major role to play in Microsoft’s next generation of Visual Studio, and it is the basis of their “.NET” strategy. If you’re looking to write a bullet-proof SOAP service now, in VB6, then look no fu