Tag: JSON / JAVA / XML

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XML Matters: Beyond the DOM

(Dethe Elza) The Document Object Model (DOM) is one of the most widely implemented tools for manipulating XML and HTML data, but it is rarely used to its full potential. By taking advantage of the DOM and extending it to be even easier to use, you gain a powerful tool for XML applications, including

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RSS 101

(Bob Reselman) Blogging, formally known as web logging, is becoming as pervasive as email. These days it seems as if everybody—from worldwide news services to soccer moms and dads—has a blog. Newspapers and magazines with an online presence use blogging technology to publish the work of its jour

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Content in the Age of XML

(Bruce Silver) Not so long ago, information could be neatly separated into data and content. Data was “structured” and stored in relational databases, OLTP and other hierarchical systems. Content was “unstructured” and consisted of, well, everything else. Data was what made the company go, so da

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A Simpler Ajax Path

(Matthew Eernisse) I began working with web applications back in the bad old days, when making an application behave like a desktop app meant wrestling with byzantine table-based layouts nested five and six levels deep, and horrid, hackish frame sets within frame sets within frame sets. Those were t