(Edmond Woychowsky) Nebulous is a great word, not only is it fun to say, it is also useful in describing the requirements for a project that I worked on recently. The requirements went something like this; take a flat file, that was produced by an upstream mainframe application and produce an XML do

(Russell Butek) Gain a thorough understanding of how WSDL maps to SOAP. Under normal circumstances, you don’t have to worry about namespaces in the SOAP message. But there are times when you must. This tip prepares you for those times when you have to create your SOAP message by hand and deal wi

(Radhakrishnan Srikanth) This article explains how to infer and tune schemas starting from XML documents. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 release of the System.XML Schema Inference API is used to illustrate how to automatically infer a schema from an XML instance document.

(Arpan Desai) The XmlDataDocument was originally envisioned as a component which allowed users to have an editable, hierarchical view of Microsoft ADO.NET DataSet data. The main use case has been the ability to perform an XSLT transformation over a DataSet in order to generate HTML for presentation

(Ronald Bourret) Content management systems are systems for storing, retrieving, and assembling documents from document fragments (content). They generally include such features as editors, version control, and multi-user access. Although they are usually built on top of a database (some are built o

(Ed Tittel) When it comes to navigating a document tree and plucking data from its leaves, many XML developers use one XSLT engine or another to perform this task. XSH is a command-line XML shell that makes this unnecessary for small or quick ‘n dirty jobs, and allows you query and manipulate docume

(Dare Obasanjo) Recently there’s been a lot of buzz about using Javascript and IXMLHttpRequest in Web applications, generated in large part by the recent article Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett, which coined the term Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX). The ren

(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. The second part of this series covers implementing more kinds of buttons. It also begins talking about creating Menu Bars

(Brian Goetz) I recently advised on a project that involved a fair bit of Web crawling. As the program crawled the various Web sites, it would build a database of the sites and pages crawled, the links each page contained, the results of analysis on each pages, and so on. The end result was to b

(Tom Archer) The past several articles have demonstrated how to use both the XmlTextWriter and XmlTextReader classes to perform basic XML file, or document, tasks. This article takes what you’ve seen thus far to the next logical step—creating a real application that reads and writes data using these