(Prasadarao K. Vithanala) This white paper provides an introduction to various features of XQuery implemented in SQL Server 2005 such as the FLWOR statement, operators in XQuery, if-then-else construct, XML constructors, built-in XQuery functions, type casting operators, and examples of how to use e

(Martin Banks) XML is already so well established that is seems to have been around for decades, yet earlier this year, February 10th to be precise, saw it reach just its seventh birthday. As one of the companies that was a participant in its conception and gestation, Microsoft decided it would

(Uche Ogbuji) In the last article I started a discussion of the Unicode facilities in Python, especially with XML processing in mind. In this article I continue the discussion. I do want to mention that I don’t claim these articles to be an exhaustive catalogue of Unicode APIs; I focus on the Unicod

(Jesse Smith) Prior to the development of Extended Markup Language (XML), the only way to perform complicated queries and data analysis was by using a database. XML was developed to put data in a flat-file format for data retrieval and manipulation. One advantage of an XML file is that it can be use

Sun Microsystems has announced the development of Web Services Registry and Repository for building Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The Sun Service Registry “enables service oriented architectures by providing centralized access to discovery, use, and reuse of web services as well as secure, f

(Tom Archer) When using the MSXML2 library, you typically load XML files from disk into a DOM (Document Object Model) object by creating an instance of IXMLDOMDocument and calling its load function—where you pass a BSTR representation of the file name. However, I had a situation recently where, due

(Vance McCarthy) In the wake of the Microsoft/Sun plan to launch specs to better ensure interop and single sign-on (SSO) for web services security and identity, devs have been scrambling for real code and real details. This July, XML Summer School will provide devs their first hands-on look at desig

(Doug Henschen) I’m old enough to remember the dawn of personal computing and the boon to productivity brought on by desktop applications such as word processing and spreadsheets. It was huge, back in the early ’80s, just to be able to do a simple mail merge. I’m sure Microsoft’s embrace of XML-base

The unprecedented demands placed on government today, from maintaining Homeland Security to providing more services to citizens, has created a greater sense of urgency and higher degree of accountability at every level of the government. The need to obtain, share, and process dynamic, structured and

(Jimmy Zhang) SOAP is an XML based data protocol standardized by W3C for the purpose of enabling inter-application data exchange over the Internet. In a typical Web Services scenario, a SOAP message delivered via HTTP needs to be parsed before anything else can happen. As two popular SOAP processing