(Elliotte Harold) Much has been written about how to process XML documents, including how to search them with XPath, transform them with XSLT, style them with CSS, and create them with DOM. But as XML becomes increasingly popular and begins to pervade your systems (whether you want it to or not), a

(Ravi Kumar Buragapu) This white paper describes a unique architecture, framework and mechanism for rapidly changing business environment that provides the feature “Dynamic Decision Making” through the “XML Based Rich Clients Technology/Framework”.

(Loretta Hicks) For Eclipse help plug-in developers, navigation files (TOC files) represent a considerable investment of effort. If you decide to convert the source files for an Eclipse plug-in to Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) files, then you’ll find tools to assist you with converti

(Bob DuCharme) Last month I promised to eventually discuss the use of schemas with XSLT 2.0 — that is, XSLT 2.0’s ability to read a W3C schema to discover additional information about a source tree, result tree, or interim temporary tree, and to use that information when processing a document. T

(Nicholas Chase) Many developers tend to think of Web services as a way to easily move information from one place to another, but it’s also important to understand how integral a Web service can be to the overall application. This tip gives some examples of using XML for Short Message Service (S

(Ravi Chander Gunishetti and Harikishan Jayaraj) OPENXML is a new function added to SQL Server 2000 that provides a rowset view over an XML document. Since a rowset is simply a set of rows that contain columns of data, OPENXML is the function that allows an XML document to be treated in the familiar

GlobusData has developed qxLanguage, which the company says is easier to use “than any existing tool on the market.” It is designed for use by programmers and lay people alilke, through the use of SQL-like constructs for self-describing codes. It is compatible with existing XML standards governed by

(Uche Ogbuji) This installment continues the review of the many different approaches to semantic transparency, discussing what they mean to the developer using XML. One way to save resources on a long journey is to hitchhike. In XML, you can take advantage of countless open schema initiatives that,

(John Tunnicliffe) When it came to overhauling our corporate web-site, www.capco.com, we had a number of challenges to overcome. In particular, how could we get the right balance between the competing demands of design and technology?

(Joe Gregorio) Here is a quick review of where we ended in the last column. We answered all four questions about our resources and their representations. All of that work is summarized in the table below.