(Jan J. Kratky, Kevin E. Kelly, Steve Speicher and Keith Wells) Take a closer look at XML Forms Generator. Part 1 of this two-part series showed you how this alphaWorks technology uses Model Driven Development concepts with Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) to permit generation of forms from XML inst

(Stephen Morris) Once upon a time, parsers were a specialized area in their own right. Occupying pride of place in compiler design, parsers played a key role in the processing of source code. This is still true today, but parsers are now a timeless utility item. Parsers are deployed on the full spec

(Hari Vignesh Padmanaban and Pradeep Chopra) Get a detailed look at the objectives of the IBM Certified Solution Developer Exam for XML and Related Technologies, and learn how specific XML technologies map to the objectives prescribed for this exam. This is the final installment of a three-part tuto

(Uche Ogbuji) Recently there have been some discussions in the Python community about whether and where XML is useful. As I’ve mentioned before, the Python community tends to be rather hostile to XML. The recent round of discussions has mixed some of that raw scorn with a bit of nuance, and it s

(Laurence Moroney) When it comes to their GUIs, distributed applications have always observed a pendulum effect. The early enterprise distributed application comprised a heavy centralized server with a dumb terminal for data entry. As the personal computer evolved, the model changed; increased power

(Jack Herrington) For any reasonably complex data set, you need multiple views to navigate it. Take a QA test system, for example: With a pool of tests and test results, you need to see the data by date, by test category, by individual test, and so on. Each view would be in its own HTML file. So, ca

(Scott Mitchell) As we’ve discussed in the previous installments of this article series, Web services are comprised of a number of core standards, including: XML – XML serves as a universal data format, and is the means by which data passed to and from a Web service is encoded. XML was the chosen

(Tom Myer) In this chapter, we’ll cover the basics of XML — essentially, most of the information you’ll need to know to get a handle on this exciting technology. After we’re done exploring some terminology and examples, we’ll jump right in and start working with XML documents. Then, we’ll spend some

(Cameron Adams) In part one of this two-part series, the author created an example application that shows how to use remote scripting to implement the AJAX XMLHttpRequest protocol. Now, in part two, he shows how to create a usable interface for the example app.

(Greg Griffiths) In this article, we are going to look at the creation and evolution of a JavaScript-based quiz application. I created the program for a client of mine who had some very specific and also some very vague key requirements. The key requirements included the following: –Must be 100