(Elliotte Rusty Harold) The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) includes both a transformation language and a formatting language. Each of these, naturally enough, is an XML application. The transformation language provides elements that define rules for how one XML document is transformed into ano

(Vance McCarthy) When Cisco rolled out its AON (Application-Oriented Networking), the company may have changed the face of network hardware. AON’s most-touted bell-and-whistle is a visibility dashboard, which is designed to provide apps managers – not network managers – a real-time view of how their

(Steve Speicher and Kevin E. Kelly) Discover how to build compound XML Schema profiles from core specification schemas. In this article, you explore several extension capabilities of XML Schema and compare approaches for building Compound Document Format (CDF) profiles. In Part 2, you will define a

(Mike Gunderloy) These days, you should hardly be surprised when you run into a business requirement to make data available over the Web. Fortunately, database products are making it easier and easier to hook up Internet protocols directly to your data. Microsoft SQL Server is a case in point. W

(Ramdas S) The subject of XHTML needed special and immediate attention due to the unswerving demand from a few readers who wanted to know about this topic, which really mattered to them. Hence I am discussing the concept of XHTML, which most books discuss in their latter pages. However XHTML is a su

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET page processing model is post back based. That means in order to handle any server side event you must post the form back to the server. This event driven model is certainly powerful and rich but it has drawbacks of its own. Now a days many browsers support client side JavaScri

(Mohd Abdul Moyeed) XML is definitely the best way to share data via the World Wide Web. I came across a situation where I needed to export the database table rows in XML file format. XML data can easily be integrated into web applications for many uses. However, at some point you want XML data adde

(George Ou) When I wrote this blog blasting the massive bulk of XML, our own John Carroll responded with a defense of XML for some situations. John and I both agree that XML should not be used to handle large amounts of data because of increased storage and processing requirements, we only disagree

(Ethan McCallum) From data storage to data exchange and from Perl to Java, it’s rare to write software these days and not bump into XML. Adding XML capabilities to a C++ application, though, usually involves coding around a C-based API.

(Ed Tittel) This is the fifth segment of what was planned as an eight-part series on XML eXtensible Stylesheets Language Transformations, aka XSLT, but has now gone into eight parts because of the very topic under discussion. The subject of brief tutorial is XSLT expressions, after taking care o