(G Kishore) In this, the fourth part of the XML Workshop, the author discusses some XSL elements and functions that are very useful for XML document transformation and presentation.

(Jerome Josephraj) Find out how you can use the Web Service Choreography Interface (WSCI) to weave different Web services into meaningful business processes. The author presents a simple stock trading example that highlights the shortfalls of using Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for busine

(Micah Dubinko) This week, continuing a web application theme leading up to the XTech Conference, XML-Deviant takes a look at the issues involving the broader internet application community. The first stop is the W3C Team Comment on WF2. Normally, the W3C won’t acknowledge a Member Submission if it

(Andy Clark, Satoshi Hada, Kazuya Kosaka, Hiroshi Maruyama, Makoto Murata, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama, Kent Tamura and Naohiko Uramoto) The theme of this book is how XML and Java interact with each other. In Chapter 2 (parsing) we explained how to transform an XML document into a Java data structur

(Doug Doedens) With xml and xslt transformations becoming a large part of many business applications it would be benificial to have this functionality in the .NET IDE. Following are the instructions for adding xslt transformations and intellesense to xslt documents to the .NET IDE.

(Phil McCarthy) As more data is being stored in RDF formats like RSS, a need has arisen for a simple way to locate specific information. SPARQL, a powerful new query language fills that space, making it easy to find the data you need in the RDF haystack. Take a tour of SPARQL’s features and lear

(Preston Gralla) There are many roadblocks to the widespread use of Web services, but chief among them are security and authentication issues. Unless business partners can rely on authenticating each other, and unless businesses can rely on authenticating users, Web services will remain an interesti

(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

(Joshua Gitlin) In case you haven’t heard by now, the hottest buzzword in the realm of web technology is AJAX (as coined in an Adaptive Path essay). The crux of the AJAX framework is the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object which allows client-side developers to send and receive XML documents over HTTP

(Francis A. Shanahan) Visual Studio provides a solid toolset out of the box. The Solution Explorer, Properties window, Class Explorer, Command window, and the rest each play an integral role in the development process. But, since Microsoft couldn’t anticipate every need a developer might have, there