(Giovanni Guardalben and Shaku Atre) The XML markup language should be the lingua franca of data interchange, but its rate of acceptance has been limited by an underlying mismatch between XML and legacy relational databases. This, in turn, has created a need for mapping tools that can make it relat

Daniela Florescu, Ioana Manolescu and Donald Kossmann) Due to the popularity of the XML data format, several query languages for XML have been proposed, specially devised to handle data whose structure is unknown, loose, or absent. While these languages are rich enough to allow for querying the cont

(Lachlan Hunt) The discussion of XHTML versus HTML has popped up again, and until now I’ve managed to resist the urge to throw in my 2¢. Well, no longer will I sit on the side line while the same arguments get rehashed again and again, which will not get us anywhere. In this article, which I origina

(Andrew J. Bradfield and Qun Zhou) Gain solutions to some common roadblocks that you might encounter when using Web Services Inspection Language (WSIL) documents that have n-level Web services references. The authors identify the situations where WSIL documents become cumbersome and show you some so

(Michael Day) The decision to identify XML namespaces with URIs was an architectural mistake that has caused much suffering for XML users and needless complexity for XML tools. Removing namespace URIs altogether and simply using namespace prefixes to identify namespaces would make it easier for peop

(Chandra) I have seen quite a few newsgroup posts about SQLXML Bulkload where the users think the schema and the data file that they use are correct, but nothing gets bulkloaded and neither do they get an error.

(Edmon Begoli) Jibernate has taken the IT world by surprise with its easy-to-use, high-performance, and sophisticated features for object-relational (OR) persistence. The most recent version of Hibernate (version 3, released on March 29) brings an important new feature to the product API: XML pe

(Micah Dubinko) Paul Hudak’s excellent book begins: “Programming, in its broadest sense, is problem solving.” Would that we all lived by such a sensible guideline. Thanks to human nature, the big picture easily drifts out into the mists, especially in certain kinds of discussions. Perhaps this is a

As many enterprise developers work on web services and data integration projects, they are becoming increasingly frustrated that they don’t have more control over the XML portions of their work. Consequently, more developers are asking, “Isn’t there a better way to control XML transformations withou

(Erin Gannon) The proliferation of handheld devices means that users are increasingly relying on them to perform routine, daily tasks—the cell phone, with its video card and internet access is becoming a constant companion. With this ubiquity comes the necessity to make these devices smaller, more c