(Joseph Poozhikunnel) The three X’s that are often used in SOA are XML, XML Schema and XSLT. This article intends to examine them in terms of SOA as shown in figure 1. An SOA need not use any of them, but as more and more teams are standardizing the messaging mechanism, the more XML is being used. T

(Sanket Bakshi) Message transformations have long been an integral part of EAI projects. Disparate systems participating in an integration project need transformations as dictated by their respective standards. As an EAI tool, BizTalk provides excellent support for message transformations.

(Peter Abrahams) If SOA solutions are going to live up to the expectations of supporting agile business processes then the individual services will need to be fine grained. They need to be sufficiently small so that they can be used in multiple different business processes easily. They need to b

(Roger Jennings) SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and higher add native XML Web services as a new feature that enables DBAs and .NET database developers to expose stored procedures, user-defined functions, and ad-hoc batch queries as SOAP 1.x Web methods. Native Web services substitute SOAP over HT

(Kiran Pai) This is the simplest way to read data from an XML file into a Java program. I have also included some basic error checking, so you can directly cut-paste this code with a few changes ofcourse. All you have to do is change the XML tags within the program to match those that are present in

(Priya Lakshminarayanan) Unique Particle Attribution or UPA as it is known among schema savvy XML geeks, is one among many rules in the XML Schema spec that confounds most schema authors. If you ever see the following error message while compiling a schema, then you have hit a UPA problem.

(Ramdas S) XML documents follow certain strict rules to ensure that they can be read and understood by any XML parser. An XML document that adheres to these rules is said to be well-formed.

(Doug Henschen) Switching to XML-based content management can save big money in the long run by promoting content reuse and multichannel delivery. It can also be an expensive, time-consuming challenge akin to building a house from a pile of lumber. Using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (D

In an annotated XSD schema, when an attribute (or element) is mapped to a BLOB column in Microsoft SQL Server, the data is returned in Base 64-encoded format within XML.

(Ed Tittel) This is the fourth segment of what was planned as an eight-part series on XML eXtensible Stylesheets Language Transformations, aka XSLT. The subject of this brief tutorial was supposed to be XSLT expressions, which employ variables and data types to seek out specific XSLT document elemen