(Joe Gregorio) In three of my four Restful Web columns, I’ve been describing the design of a REST web service for creating and managing web bookmarks. It’s now time to get down to some coding. The major part of creating such a service is implementing the method of dispatching: how does an incoming H
Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML
XmlGrid
(El’Cachubrey) The control is intended for displaying and editing data of an XML file in property grid. Also this control fits data for convenient displaying by particular rules defined in a schema file.
Extending the DataGrid – Creating a Time Allocation Grid
(Dan Wahlin) The DataGrid control provides an enormous amount of functionality that can be used to display and collect data in a Web application. This session takes an advanced look at how the DataGrid control can be extended to create a Time Allocation grid to associate employee hours with work cod
Inferring Schemas from Well-Formed XML Documents with Whidbey Beta 2
(Radhakrishnan Srikanth) In the past few years XML has emerged as one of the prominent data exchange formats. The features of XML, namely the semantic markup and the human readable nature, simplified data exchange, allowed users to break free from proprietary data formats. Schemas are used to repres
Managing XML data: Native XML databases
(Elliotte Harold) When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When your only tool is a relational database, everything looks like a table. Reality, however, is more complicated than that. Data often isn’t tabular and can benefit from a tool that more closely fits its natural struc
An Introduction to XUL Part 3
(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 third part of this series covers layout and content elements.
Experts say Microsoft’s XML play won’t backfire
(Matt Hines) Conventional wisdom has long held that if Microsoft were to embrace XML as its default file format for Office and discard the proprietary underpinnings that have ostensibly handcuffed customers to its products, businesses might jump at the chance to move to other software providers, or
High Finance Learns a New Language
(Alan Radding) Meet the new addition to the XML family, XBRL. eXensible Business Reporting Language represents another derivative of XML and promises to streamline the integration of business reports and automate the corresponding financial and business analysis. Although the initial uses of XBRL fo
Hacking Election Maps with XML and MapServer
(Simon St. Laurent) All of those American red-blue political maps are pretty boring, right? After all, it’s not likely that the two sides are going to form separate countries, and they produce all kinds of charming stereotypes. The more detailed county-by-county or even the shades of purple maps are
Convert Excel to XML file/XML Schema, and validate Excel against XML Schema
(Gaurang Desai) Often we are in a need to convert Excel data to XML stream/XML file which can be used as a feed to various applications like web services or middle tiers such as BizTalk 2004. There will be many situations where we need to validate the format of Excel data sheet against a specified X
