(Dan Wahlin) During the development of the XML specification, the W3C working group realized that for XML to reach its full potential, a method of transforming XML documents into different formats needed to exist. At some time or another, an application that has the capability to work with XML doc

(Dan Mabbutt) Now, let’s look at the XML version of the same thing. One nice thing about this is that it’s possible to convert to XML instead of the .NET binary serialization with very few changes. XML isn’t quite as fast and can’t capture some object information, but it is far more flexible and can

(Coach Wei) Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-cl

XML Conference & Exposition 2005 is the event where management and technical professionals from business, government, and other organizations gather to review the latest technologies, applications, and services that exist for the XML community.

(Harish Ranganathan) XML is one of the greatest standards that have been developed and adopted over the recent years for data storing and retrieving. XML Documents can store as much information as required and yet consume very less disk space due to them being flat files. XML has provided a great me

(Michael Vanhoutte) This document describes one possible way of how you can safely store a Visual Basic 6 Date datatype in an XML Document. Recently, I spent a significant amount of time trying to solve a very simple problem. In a Visual Basic 6 application, I had a variable of a Date datatype that

(Stoyan Stefanov) Do you want to build more dynamic, responsive, desktop-like Web applications like Gmail and Google Maps? Then this article is for you. It guides you through the AJAX basics and through the process of building a simple AJAX application. That application is named WebConsole and, in e

(Eric T. Peterson) Web analytics is a component of online business that has been slowly gaining momentum over the last half-dozen years, one whose time, many say, has officially come, based on Google’s acquisition of Urchin Software in 2005. In general terms, web analytics is the process of coll

(Scott Hinkelman) Industry trends within the XML-oriented business space indicate that regardless of the advancements in technology that XML brings, challenges in business information modeling that have existed for decades continue. A predominant problem area is centered on the real-world need 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