Highly automated accounting departments have invoice-processing bottlenecks too. Case in point is the law firm Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear (Irvine, Calif.), where the accounting staff processes 3,500 monthly invoices and statements.

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the launch of a new Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), designed to make “Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy and convenient as Web access from a desktop device.”

(Michael Wacey) Will many of the features in XML Schema be widely used? In particular, I agree that it is better to have an XML language for specifying document layout rather than the DTD language. On the other hand, I am not sure that the document layout should be strongly typed. The nightmare

(Micah Dubinko) The previous two installments of XML-Deviant looked at Web Forms 2.0, or WF2, a Member Submission to the W3C. This week’s installment concludes the review of that document.

(John Papa) SQL Server 2000 includes several XML features that let you transform relational rowsets into hierarchical XML documents, read XML documents, and bulk load data via XML. For example, you can pass an XML document to a stored procedure, join the XML to some tables and return a rowset, or ev

(Bill Burris) If your website has several pages with a similar layout it can become a pain to update using an HTML editor. What is needed is a way to automate the page generation from database tables, XML, & XSL files. By separating content and page layout for you website it is much easier to update

(Rick Jelliffe) I suspect that we haven’t seen anything yet, as far as XML’s mid-term impact on software design.

(Michael Gold) I finally found some time to download Visual Studio 2005 and take a look at some of its powerful new features. One feature that struck me as a real time saver was the new code snippet Intellisense feature. This feature allows you to create pieces of commonly used code with just a

(Tom Archer) This first of a multi-part series on using the .NET XML classes begins with the logical first step: programmatically creating and writing XML files or documents. From there, future articles will cover the tasks of sequentially reading XML files, writing a simple XML maintenance appl

(Bob DuCharme) Just as XPath 1.0 was part of XSLT 1.0, XPath 2.0 plays an important role in XSLT 2.0, and all the new features of XPath 2.0 will be available to XSLT 2.0 stylesheet developers. In earlier columns on XSLT 2.0, I reviewed its new data model and some of its new functions, and this month