(Rick Jelliffe) I rather expected the recent W3C Schema Experience Workshop would be a snow job. People who make something are not the proper people to conduct a review of it. It the basic principle of auditing, and of code reviewing. If I had evangelized my employer and its customers to invest heav

(Dino Esposito) In software, five years is like a geological era. Five years ago, the Microsoft .NET Framework had just been announced. Since then, the DataSet has emerged as the key object for performing a variety of data-related tasks in .NET-based applications. Five years ago, the DataSet was

(Benoît Marchal) In this installment, I continue my discussion of common XML pitfalls and, perhaps more importantly, show you how to avoid them. My previous column focused on frequent misunderstandings in the use of the XML syntax itself. Here, I look at how to integrate XML support into an applicat

(Edmon Begoli) OpenLaszlo, an open source framework sponsored by LaszloSystems, has attracted a significant attention after Earthlink, the second largest Internet Service Provider, announced that it will use OpenLaszlo technology for its new generation of interactive Web mail clients. OpenLaszlo

(Jennifer Kyrnin) If you’ve written HTML, you’ve almost certainly used attributes without even realizing it. For example, the image tag requires the use of at least one attribute, the src attribute in order to display any images. But with HTML, if you include an attribute that is incorrect or invali

(Pawan Bangar) One of the most important design goals for ADO+ was powerful XML support. Microsoft designed ADO+ hand in hand with the .NET XML framework. Both are components of a single architecture. The unification of ADO+ with the XML framework happens in the dataset.

Unicode Technical Report #36 on Unicode Security Considerations "describes some of the security considerations that programmers, system analysts, standards developers, and users should take into account [when using the Unicode Standard], and provides specific recommendations to reduce the risk of pr

(Edgardo Burin) Integrating mainframe applications into an SOA often carries the burden of dealing with metadata in the form of Cobol Copybooks. This metadata converted to an XML Schema format can be useful for a range of applications (from validation to creation of services). This article expla

(Alexander Mikhailian) XML appears in some form in most modern applications—and often needs to be transformed from one form into another: merged, split, massaged, or simply reformatted into HTML. In most cases, it’s far more robust and efficient to use XSLT to perform such transformations than t

(Rahul Srivastava) A grammar defines the structure and semantics of a language, enforces constraints, and ensures validity of the instance (the actual data). Just as the English (or any other) language has an associated grammar that defines the rules about how a particular sentence can be composed—a