(Steven Swafford) As a developer, I myself have a very strong opinion that all code that is written should be documented. Documentation should always be foremost in your thought process. Why, you may ask? Well, let me explain. Have you ever been in a position where you were hired for a project, and

(Parand Darugar) Experience shows XML namespaces can be a common cause of confusion and a major complicating factor in XML adoption. In this article, the author argues that XML namespaces do not offer a good solution for the problems they aim to solve, and are not needed for the majority of XML use

(Doug Henschen) Big banks, brokerages and consumer packaged goods companies put millions of dollars and months of effort into normalizing, cleansing and analyzing competitive data as quarterly and annual corporate earnings reports are released. Extensible business reporting language (XBRL) and a

(Martin C. Brown) Management through Web services simplifies the numerous interfaces and solutions that provide management tools for network-attached systems and devices. These range from simple printers to more complex operating system management issues. The Web Services Distributed Management

(Jónas Antonsson) XSD – or Xml Schema Definition – defines an XML document outline in terms of constraints to content and structure. Such constraints are additional to those imposed by the basic definition of XML. XML documents can reference a specific schema and by doing so they become instances of

(Sean McGrath) File Save As … XML I’ll come straight to the point this week (for a change). XML is not – repeat NOT – a ‘file format’ in the sense that most people use the phrase ‘file format’.

(Doug Henschen) When Microsoft announced in June that the default file formats in the next-generation Office suite would be based on XML, there was reason to both hope and question whether open computing was headed for a major victory. If Office 12, slated for release next year, starts churning

(Coach Wei) Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-cl

(Ken Getz) I have an application in which I need to take XML data that’s handed to me as an XML string, and import it into a DataSet. I get the data as a String containing the XML, and really don’t want to save it to a file before loading it. I checked out the DataSet class, and found that […]

(Micah Dubinko) This week’s column takes a look at two new specifications that are winding through the W3C Recommendation Track, xml:id as a Proposed Recommendation and XLink 1.1 as a Last Call Working Draft. These two specifications share an important common trait: neither is a standalone vocab