(Andrew Flick and Devin Rader) Providing users with a responsive Web user interface has been a consistent problem because of the fact that once a page has been loaded, connection to the server is severed. This causes lengthy trips back to the server, requiring visible postbacks for everything from t

The implementation of B2B Web services is sometimes complicated by their need to interact with entrenched legacy systems. While the flexibility of XML can often be enough to compensate for the limitations of these systems, it is not always the only technology required. One method developers can use

(Paul Fremantle and Anthony Elder) Get a further introduction to E4X in the second part of this two-part article. E4X, ECMAScript for XML, a simple extension to JavaScript that makes XML scripting very simple. In Part 1, we demonstrated a Web programming model called AJAX, Asynchronous JavaScrip

(Mark O’Neill) “Trust then verify” was Ronald Reagan’s maxim for international arms control. A similar maxim can be applied to security architectures in cross-firewall XML projects: “Trust then validate”.

(Uche Ogbuji) There have been recent releases of two of the Python-XML projects in which I’m involved; 4Suite and Amara XML Toolkit. One common theme in both releases was marked improvements to the XML document creation APIs. These improvements are significant enough to discuss and compare to th

(Yasser Shohoud) As you develop distributed Web applications, you will need a way to represent your structured data and send it from one tier to the other possibly over the Web. XML is an excellent choice for representing structured data. For example, you’ll find yourself sending XML data between th

(Ed Tittel) Those of you who have been reading my XML tips since I first started them nearly five years ago may remember when XML hardware appeared to offer significant performance and security boosts to specialized Web operations, especially those using various forms of XML-based transaction proces

(Vance McCarthy) More than half of all XML developers are working with XQuery, and another sizeable group expects to start before the end of the year.

(Paul Fremantle and Anthony Elder) Get an introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X), a simple extension to JavaScript that makes XML scripting very simple. In this paper, the authors demonstrate a Web programming model called Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) and show you how some new XML extens

(David Mertz) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML format that describes scale-independent graphics, with good support in free software and commercial tools. In this installment, David introduces scripting and animation with SVG, and touches on manipulating SVG through DOM. Because SVG is XM