(Paul Kimmel) For years I’ve been doing contract software development for companies in North America. Somehow I seem to spend winters on the west coast and summers on the east coast. While on the west coast I like to get down to Las Vegas and play some Blackjack. Of course, winning is more desirable

(Micah Dubinko) A lot of staying on top of XML is just keeping up with two kinds of things: those that change, and those that stay the same. Plenty of both can be found on the xml-dev mailing list and other discussions within the community. This week, XML-Deviant takes a retrospective look back as f

(Davide Mauri) Finally i’ve managed to have a hierarchical xml result from a CTE Query. I’ve discovered that SQL Server 2005 cannot do this natively, so at the end i’ve create a .NET Stored Procedure that takes the XML as it cames out from the CTE and produces a hierarchical one.

(Colleen Frye) When you’re a defense contractor like Rockwell Collins, security is an overarching theme. So when this global manufacturer of aviation electronics for commercial and government customers set out to speed its business-to-business communications by utilizing XML Web services, it chose a

(Laurie Rowell) The first time I heard of XML, someone explained it to me as a language for the web that allowed developers to customize their terms, almost creating a new language as they went. “This is never going to work,” I told a colleague, displaying that knowledge of the technological marketp

(Uche Ogbuji) In the fast-moving world of weblogs and Web-based marketing, the approval of the Atom Format 1.0 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a Proposed Standard is a significant and lasting development. Atom is a very carefully designed format for syndicating the contents of weblo

(Chris Scott) Sometimes you need the basic features of a database but don’t want the hassle, and possibly cost, of creating one for a small application. With the .NET DataSet object and a simple XML document we can emulate the basic features of a database. In this example, we use an XML document whi

(Susan Kuchinskas) Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates welcomed several thousand developers to the new world of XML, the data format at the heart of the company’s next generation of products.

(Tony Patton) If you’ve been involved in Web development for any amount of time, the latest trend of developing applications with remote scripting capabilities via AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) will not be a surprise. After all, it has been available for many years with the drawback being bro

(Eran Chinthaka) The AXis Object Model (AXIOM) is the XML object model for Apache Axis 2, and aims to revolutionize XML processing technology by providing a powerful combination of features. AXIOM goes beyond existing XML processing methodologies as it combines deferred building with a customizable