(Ray Rischpater) The merging of computing with our everyday life—through computers, personal digital assistants, cell phones, and a plethora of other gadgets—is driving a trend towards pervasive computing, in which computing is becoming a backdrop to our daily activities. IBM, long a leader in the p

(Dan Wahlin) The initial release of the .NET framework contained several classes geared toward parsing, validating, and transforming XML data. Version 2 builds upon .NET’s existing support for XML by adding several new and enhanced classes that support working with XML. This session will focus o

(Mahesh Chand) XAML provides elements such as Paragraph, LineBreak, TextFlow, and Block that are used to create a text document. In this article, I will discuss how to use these XAML elements to generate text document.

(Dan Wellman) Learn about XUL, a subset of XML used to describe user interfaces, that helps you to make rich user interfaces with nothing more complicated than a text editor. In the fourth part of this series you will learn about dialog boxes and wizards.

(Bob DuCharme) In an earlier column titled Duplicate and Empty Elements, I wrote about how the notion of “duplicate” elements isn’t as simple as it sounds, because XPath 1.0 (and hence your XSLT style sheets) considers two elements to be equal if their string values are the same. The string value is

(Dennis M. Sosnoski) The number of available document models in Java is growing all the time. For this benchmark I’ve included the most popular models, along with a couple of choices that demonstrate especially intriguing features which may not yet be widely known or used. Given the increasing impor

(Jack Herrington) Learn how to use the XMLStarlet command-line utility to format, transform, fix, and edit XML using a set of simple commands. This article shows you how easy it is to get up and running — and simplify your life — with this powerful tool.

(Chris Scott) Sometimes you need the basic features of a database but don’t want the hassle, and possibly cost, of creating one for a small application. With the .NET DataSet object and a simple XML document we can emulate the basic features of a database. In this example, we use an XML document whi

(Alex Hazanov) This article is a successor to my previous article Wrapper class for IXMLDDOMDocument.

(Curt Hibbs) In a few short months, Ajax has moved from an obscure and rarely used technology to the hottest thing since sliced bread. This article introduces the incredibly easy-to-use Ajax support that is part of the Ruby on Rails web application framework. This is not a step-by-step tutorial, and