(Farukh Ijaz) The minimum requirement for this tip to work is to have Internet Explorer with MSXML objects installed when Windows is installed. The DOMDocument is also available in the new versions of Netscape. This example displays user information based on the login id without submitting the form.

(Mike Lehmann) Web services have moved beyond the experimental stage in many organizations and are now becoming the foundation of numerous service-oriented architectures. Thus, architects are concerned about best practices for building, deploying, and maintaining a large-scale interoperable Web serv

(Deepak Vohra) The getter methods in the org.w3c.dom package API are commonly used to parse an XML document. But J2SE 5.0 also provides the javax.xml.xpath package to parse an XML document with the XML Path Language (XPath). The JDOM org.jdom.xpath.XPath class also has methods to select XML docu

(Rich Salz) I’ve recently spent a bit more time than usual talking to analysts and reporters. Almost all of these discussions end up circling around this question: what standards do we need for secure web services, and are they ready? The answer is yes, they basically are, and we’ll review them

(Martin LaMonica) The technology known as Extensible Markup Language has become a nearly universal way to share information online. But there’s a growing recognition that XML’s benefits sometimes come with a price tag: sluggish performance.

You use the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) current() method when transforming XML data. When try to count the number of consecutive elements with the same key value, you may receive incorrect results.

(Jay Lyman) New software developed at Penn State University promises to protect XML database queries and filter out unauthorized requests, thereby boosting query performance as many as 100 times, researchers said.

(Vance McCarthy) The W3C’s release of recommended specs for XInclude 1.0 should make it much easier, and cleaner, to integrate multiple XML documents together into a single composite. In specific, XInclude 1.0 would create a "standard inclusion mechanism" for the XML mark up language, which would si

(Bob DuCharme) In an earlier column titled XSLT Extensions, I described how the Extensions section of the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation provides a way to identify the use of extensions to the XSLT 1.0 language. If your XSLT processor implements specialized new elements and functions, this gives your s

(Jeff Dexter) The XML world is driving new emerging technologies that can be utilized to provide solutions to a variety of problems. This article focuses on two of these technologies: Web services and XQuery. As separate entities, these technologies provide a powerful set of features; but when c