(Jim Wagner) Some relatively new Google applications have prompted renewed interest in a programming technique that is years old.

(Bill Burris) If your website has several pages with a similar layout it can become a pain to update using an HTML editor. What is needed is a way to automate the page generation from database tables, XML, & XSL files. By separating content and page layout for you website it is much easier to update

(Elliotte Rusty Harold) Writing XML documents is very straightforward, as I hope Chapters 3 and 4 proved. Reading XML documents is not nearly as simple. Fortunately, you don’t have to do all the work yourself; you can use an XML parser to read the document for you. The XML parser exposes the con

XML to DDL is a set of python programs to convert an XML representation of a database into a set of SQL (or DDL: Data Definition Language) statements.

(Tyler Mitchell) The recent popularization of certain web technologies used by Google Maps has encouraged the development of more interactive web mapping techniques. Google’s web mapping tools use a technology known as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). AJAX is a style of web application develo

(Nik Kesic) The IBM UniData and UniVerse databases (U2) offer many APIs that can leverage your application investment from a closed environment to a fully integrated open environment (Internet). This article explores some of the U2 Extended BASIC APIs, namely SOAP, DOM, XPath, XMLDB, XMAP, and the X

(Alex Homer) This is the second in a series of three articles that look at how the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise-level database, SQL Server 2005, now offers great support and close integration with XML as a data persistence format. This includes new ways to validate, store and query XML d

(Frank Sommers) Java Business Integration (JSR 208) defines container services that enable system integration via Web service technologies and XML message exchanges. In this interview, JBI Spec Lead Ron Ten-Hove discusses how JBI will impact enterprise Java developers.

(Hari Gottipati) Google didn’t get around to releasing the documentation of its maps API until relatively recently, but many developers were experimenting with the service as soon as it went into public beta. I built the Irving, Texas (a suburb of Dallas) parks demo before the API was publicly docum

(Mike Elliott) Through many years of enterprise level software development and consulting, I became critically aware of the importance of good source code documentation, and several years ago when I began working with the first release of Visual Studio .NET beta 1 and found C# provided built-in supp